Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-bibliographical ...
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BIOGRAPHY Haing S. Ngor was born in 1941 or 1947 in Samrong Yong, a small village south of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He earned his medical degree from the university in Phnom Penh, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, and worked at the government''s military hospital until the Khmer Rouge invaded Phnom Penh in 1975. In 1979. Haing Ngor escaped Cambodia for Thailand, and in 1980 he arrived in the United States and began to work helping other Cambodian ...