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Award-winning Vietnamese-American author Andrew X. Pham is a former resident of Santa Clara. He dropped out of the M.B. A. program at Santa Clara University to be a writer. Now Pham lives in Thailand where he grows rice, fruit and rubber trees. He visits the United States roughly once a year to see his family. So, students at Mission College were lucky to hear Pham speak at their school library and in classrooms on Oct. 8.
“I did a lecture here about 12 to 13 years ago, and the student body’s diversity has changed significantly since then,” Pham says. “The school’s more diverse now. I was surprised [that interest in] my work transcends racial lines.”
Pham wrote “Catfish and Mandala” and “The Eaves of Heaven,” both non-fiction books. “Catfish and Mandala is a memoir about Pham’s family’s journey coming to America and about his year-long solo bicycle trip through Vietnam. “The Eaves of Heaven” is a biography of Pham’s father, whose life has spanned through three wars, from the feudal
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Andrew X. Pham trained and graduated from UCLA as an aerospace engineer. He worked at United Airlines as an aircraft engineer before switching career to become a writer while pursuing dual graduate degrees, M.B.A and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in orbital debris. His brother's suicide was the catalyst in his pivotal life changing decision. He writes and lives on the Thai-Laos border in a traditional wooden farm bungalow he built on the Mekong River. He teaches writing and occassionally lead bicycle tours in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. He has launched a culinary project on Kickstarter.com, titled A Southeast Asian Love Affair: My Cookbook Diary of Travels, Flavors and Memories, a literary work that tells the stories of his life in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. He can be found at andrewxpham.com He is the author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (1999) and The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars (2009). He is also the translator of Last Night I Dreamed of Peace (2008). Catfish and Mandala won
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