Dr. Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario, and studied medicine in Toronto where he is an emergency physician.  A #1 bestseller in Canada, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures was awarded the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction, making him the youngest writer ever to have won the prize. It was also a 2007 finalist for The Story Prize. Lam’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Carve. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and his first novel, a multigenerational family saga set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, is forthcoming from Weinstein Books. Lam lives with his family in Toronto.

Books by Vincent Lam

The Headmaster's Wager

by Vincent Lam - Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler, and an incorrigible womanizer. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mah-jongg tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth.

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories

by Vincent Lam