Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam
Author

Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was eleven years old. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, studying biochemistry, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He entered the creative writing program at San Francisco State University instead. While still in school, he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has written for many newspapers and magazines since, including National Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Nation. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for over seven years, Lam is the author of three books and has won the PEN Open Book Award, the Josephine Miles Literary Award, and many others. He served as a Journalism Fellow at Stanford from 2001 to 2002. In 2004 a PBS documentary about his life called My Journey Home, in which a film crew followed him back to Vietnam, was aired nationwide. Lam has lectured at many universities and colleges and taught as a writer-in-residence at San Jose State University from 2015 to 2016. He is working on a novel and a memoir about his childhood in Vietnam during the war.

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