Ed Lin

Ed Lin is a Taiwanese-American writer, actor and novelist. He is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His first novel, Waylaid (2002) won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards and also a Booklist Editors' Choice Award in Fiction in 2002. Lin has written a series of crime novels revolving around Chinese-American cop Robert Chow and set in 1976 New York City Chinatown, beginning with This Is A Bust (2007) (Kaya Press), which won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards. The sequel, Snakes Can't Run, was published in 2010, followed with One Red Bastard in 2012, both by Minotaur Books. Lin grew up in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in mining engineering around 1991, and was one class short of graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature writing, which he wanted to obtain in order to go to Journalism school, an aspiration of his.In 2002, Lin married Cindy Cheung, an actress. They have one son and reside in Brooklyn.