Xuan-Lan Nguyen graduated from La Sorbonne, the University of Paris,with a Licence-es-Lettres in English Literature. She then studied for a Ph.D. in English at UCLA.
Although a native of Vietnam, Mrs. Nguyen has lived in the United States for thirty years. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association since 1980.
A mother of three, she now lives happily with her husband. This is her second published book; her first is entitled Kitty Cat.
Her next book, The Legends of the Promised Land, could be summed up in the following sentence:
"The land over which I flew as I arrived, my heart throbbing with fear, homesickness and tears, ultimately fulfilled my wildest dreams in that typical manner we call the charm or the American genius."