
| Andrew Lam is a co-founder of New America Media, an ethnic news association bringing professional perspective to current and cultural affairs. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, 1986, becoming a "cowboy" in many ways as he pursued his own goals and talents instead of those required by his parents, a prominent South Vietnamese immigrant family. Leaving microbiology behind, Andrew Lam became a journalist and creative writer. He is a regular radio commentator on NPR. Andrew's vision has brought him an invitation to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and many awards. |
| Perfume Dreams PEN American Center "Beyond Margins" Award 2006 by Andrew Lam Foreword by Richard Rodriguez In this engaging and thoughtful collection of essays, noted journalist Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity and challenges definitions -- both society's and his own -- of what it means to be an immigrant, a son, and a survivor. |

