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Lan Cao
Lan Cao (born 1961) is the author of the novels ''Monkey Bridge'' (2007) and ''The Lotus and the Storm''( 2014). She is also a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, specializing in international business and trade, international law, and development. She has taught at Brooklyn Law School, Duke Law School, Michigan Law School and William & Mary Law School.
==Early life==
Cao was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. Her father was Cao Văn Viên, the Chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff. She grew up in Saigon's twin city, Cholon. In 1975, when Communist forces defeated South Vietnam, she was flown out of Vietnam. She lived in Avon, Connecticut, with a close family friend, an American colonel, later promoted to Major General, and his wife. Cao received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke College in 1983 and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school graduation, she worked as a litigation and corporate attorney at the NYC law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She also clerked for a federal judge, Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York, who was the first African-American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in ''Meredith v. Fair'', where she won James Meredith's effort to be the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
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