Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American author of literary fiction novels. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Nguyen was born to refugees from North Vietnam, who fled south in 1954. Following the Fall of Saigon, his family fled Vietnam for the United States. He is a professor at the University of Southern California.