Ed Lin

Ed Lin
Lin at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Native name	林景南 (Chinese)
Born	Ed Lin
Occupation	Novelist. Actor.
Spouse(s)	Cindy Cheung
Website	http://www.edlinforpresident.com

Ed Lin is a Taiwanese American writer 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. The novel was adapted into a film by Michael Kang, The Motel, which won the Humanitas Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Lin has written a series of crime novels revolving around Chinese-American cop Robert Chow set in 1976 New York City Chinatown, which begins in This Is A Bust (2007) (Kaya Press), which won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards, and continues with Snakes Can't Run (2010) (Minotaur Books) and One Red Bastard (2012) (Minotaur Books).

In 2002, Lin married Cindy Cheung, an actress.

Waylaid (2002), Lin's first novel is "the story of a Taiwanese/Chinese American boy struggling to grow up amidst the drudgery and sexual innuendo of his parents' sleazy motel on the Jersey Shore" and was a 2002 Booklist Editors' Choice in Fiction and also won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards. It was made into a film Directed by Michael Kang entitled The Motel, which won the Humanitas Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

His trilogy of crime novels featuring Chinese-American Police Detective Robert Chow set in 1970s Chinatown has also won awards and garnered praise. The series so far comprises This Is A Bust (2007) (Members Choice Award, 2008 Asian American Literary Awards, Booklist Starred Review, and Listed in Best American Last Sentences of Books of 2007 in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Edited by Dave Eggers), Snakes Can't Run (2010) (Publishers Weekly Starred Review), and One Red Bastard (2012) (Publishers Weekly Starred Review).