Background
Andrew Pham was born in 1967, in Saigon, Vietnam. He is a son of Thong Van Pham. In 1977, together with his family, Andrew Pham immigrated to California.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
The University of California, Los Angeles where Andrew X. Pham studied.
3200 Senter Rd, San Jose, CA 95111, USA
Andrew Putnam Hill High School where Andrew X. Pham studied.
Andrew X. Pham reads at the 2010 VONA (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation) Faculty Reading.
Andrew X. Pham in 1990s.
Andrew Pham was born in 1967, in Saigon, Vietnam. He is a son of Thong Van Pham. In 1977, together with his family, Andrew Pham immigrated to California.
Andrew X. Pham studied at Andrew P. Hill High School. As a child, he thought he would become a painter. However, he entered the University of California, Los Angeles where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering in 1990. Later he also received a Master of Science degree and a Master of Business Administration degree.
Andrew X. Pham started his career as an aircraft engineer at United Airlines. However, soon he switched career to become a writer. He started to work as a technical writer and editor and as a restaurant critic for a local newspaper. During this time Andrew X. Pham bicycled through all the western United States, part of Japan and finally, most of Vietnam.
Andrew X. Pham published his first book Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam in 1999. Later he published such books as The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars, A Culinary Odyssey: My Cookbook Diary of Travels, Flavors and Memories of Southeast Asia. His latest book A Theory of Flight was published in 2012.
(A collection of essays by an awarding-winning memoirist, ...)
2012(This is a cookbook diary of travels, flavors, and memorie...)
2012Quotations: "It has been a long arduous road, filled with dark abysses, marvelous heights, gut-rotting doubts, exquisite joys, heartbreaks, memorable feasts, and long stretches of hunger. The view ahead seems to promise more of the same. But I have enjoyed the journey immensely. There is some truth in the old proverb: The rewarding path is never easy, the easy path never rewarding".