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Thanhha Lai
Vietnamese-born American writer of children's literature
Thanhha Lai (Vietnamese: Lai T. Thanh Hà; born January 1, 1965) is a Vietnamese-American writer of children's literature.
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She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature[1][2] and a Newbery Honor[3] for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, which was published by HarperCollins.
Personal life
Lai was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), on January 1, 1965. She has six older brothers. Ten years later, she fled Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, with her family. She then moved to Alabama and graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism in 1988, and worked for about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering news about Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and moved to New York, where she teaches at Parsons The New Scho