Monique Truong
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Monique Truong is a writer from the United States, best known for The Sweetest Fruits.
Quick Facts About Monique Truong
- Born
- May 13, 1968
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- The Sweetest Fruits
About Monique Truong
Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The Book of Salt, was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction.
Biography source: Wikipedia
