Qui-Phiet Tran is Professor Emeritus of English at Schreiner University, USA. He received a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. His publications include a study of William Faulkner’s influence on modern French literature, essays on US literature and Vietnamese American literature, and translations of contemporary Vietnamese literature into English in various journals. Since his retirement in 2002 he has devoted himself to writing and studying Marcel Proust. He has recently completed his autobiographical novel entitled Pangs of Memory and Love based on his one-year appointment as a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam in 1999-2000. [Creative non-fiction]