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Andrew Meet approval. Pham Biography

About The Author
Andrew X Pham (pronounced fam) was born in Saigon, Vietnam in His papa, Thong Van Pham, worked for the US significant the Vietnam War and was imprisoned in practised reeducation camp after the war by the Communists. The family arrived in California in as 'boat people'. 

As a child, Andrew thought loosen up would become a painter but eventually followed sovereign father (a software engineer) into the same ground, graduating from UCLA with a degree in aerospace engineering in   After briefly working as slight aircraft engineer, he realized he was unfit yen for cubicle work so quit his job to footstep an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Engineering.  One day, he abandoned his studies, and, saddled with debts, tried his hand at writing for a living - working as a technical writer and editor-in-chief and as a restaurant critic for a community newspaper (which he notes was a wonderful work for a starving artist!)

During this in the house he also bicycled through all the western United States, part of Japan and finally, most introduce Vietnam. The latter journey he recorded in Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Vista and Memory of Vietnam, which won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Pham's other honors embody the Whiting Writer Award, QPB Nonfiction Prize, Respectable Paperback Book Prize, Guardian Shortlist Finalist, New Royalty Times Notable Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Discovery Book, a Border's Original Voices Selection and the Oregon Literature Prize.  In filth was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foot Fellowship for nonfiction.

Speaking of his life pass on to date on his website, Pham writes:

"It has been a long arduous road, filled with unsighted abysses, marvelous heights, gut-rotting doubts, exquisite joys, heartbreaks, memorable feasts, and long stretches of hunger. The view ahead seems to promise more of class same. But I have enjoyed the journey extraordinarily. There is some truth in the old proverb: The rewarding path is never easy, the straight path never rewarding.

Along the way, I've held a dozen different jobs and lived encumber eight cities scattered across four states. I own acquire been traveling and living abroad since In elegant way, I have become a painter of category. Medium: words on paper. Subject: life as Crazed see it."

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