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Ed Lin (林艾德)

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Ed Lin (林艾德)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ed Lin
  • Chinese: 林艾德
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: Address
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

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.

Employment

  • Writer, actor, novelist

Role in the Community

  • First author to win three Asian American Literary Awards: Waylaid (Kaya Press, 2002) and This Is a Bust (2007) each won the Members’ Choice Award, and Snakes Can’t Run (Minotaur Books, 2010) also won. Waylaid was adapted into the film The Motel by Michael Kang.
  • Robert Chow series — Chinese-American NYPD detective novels set in 1976 New York (Snakes Can’t Run, One Red Bastard, 2012) — grew from his research into Chinese-American history in 1976; see 2012 West Coast tour chat (recorded by Ho Chie Tsai at Eastwind Books, Berkeley).
  • Turned to Taiwan as subject matter: Ghost Month (Soho Crime, 2014), a Taipei-set mystery whose protagonist Jing-nan works at Shilin Night Market, and the Taiwan-based novel Incensed (2016 tour) — 2014 interview with Anna Wu, 2016 Incensed tour record. In the interview he discusses his family (father’s family in Taiwan since shortly after the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the 1600s; mother a waishengren from Northern China who came to favor Taiwanese independence) and says Taiwan’s low international profile is a core motivation for his writing.
  • Corpus records: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/120-sally-tsai-e8-94-a1-e6-b7-91-e7-90-86|TAH #120 Ed Lin 林艾德]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2081-ed-lin|TAH #2081 Ed Lin 林景南]]. HOLD: conflict between the two TAH records’ Chinese names — 林艾德 (this page’s name_zh) vs 林景南 (#2081); never auto-merged.
  • 2026-09-22 re-grep (林艾德 / Ed Lin / 林景南): same hit set (TAH #120, #2081, index, and the three taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview records already linked) — nothing new absorbable.
  • Ghost Month (2014) tour record extended: additional community event records now wikilinked — Berkeley presentation Ghost Month 柏克羅書訊, and two New York events, NY night-market event and NY Ghost Month discussion. Confirms the 2014 Ghost Month tour spanned both Berkeley and New York Taiwanese American community venues.

Family

  • Wife: Cindy Cheung

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • 2026-09-23 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09221200-30): hit-set unchanged — same records already absorbed/wikilinked above; nothing new absorbable. SKIP-content.
  • 2026-09-26 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09251000-8; 林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南): hit-set unchanged — TAH #120, #2081, works index, and the taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked above. Verified-saturated; SKIP-content, nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 name HOLD maintained.
  • 2026-09-26 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09260400-30; 林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南): hit-set unchanged — TAH #120, #2081, works index, taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked. Verified-saturated SKIP-content; 林艾德 vs 林景南 HOLD maintained.
  • 2026-09-30 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09260800-13; 林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南): hit-set unchanged — #120, #2081, index, and the tour/interview/event records already wikilinked. Verified-saturated SKIP-content; 林艾德 vs 林景南 HOLD maintained.
  • 2026-10-04 corpus re-grep (DEEPEN-X slice 09300848-23; 林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南): hit-set unchanged (10 hits) — the 6 files above plus ...berkeley-2 and ...ghost-month-in-ny duplicates of already-linked records. Also checked the full text of the two hits NOT on the person’s own record list: TAH #120 is a bibliographic record for Sally Tsai 蔡淑理 (mislabeled Ed Lin in its title and Subjects line — a source-side labeling artifact, not a fact about this person); #2081 Ed Lin 林景南 is bibliographic-only, full text stays in the original vault. Nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 HOLD maintained. hits-hash=037f16e49e53

2026-10-05 — deepen-x slice 09300855-23 close: fresh ZH+EN re-grep (林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南) returns 10 files — hit set unchanged (TAH #120, #2081, works index, and the taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked above). Nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 name HOLD maintained. SKIP: verified-saturated. hits-hash=1d10accfdad0

2026-10-05 — deepen-x slice 09300900-23 close: fresh ZH+EN re-grep (林艾德/Ed Lin/林景南) returns 10 files — hit set unchanged (TAH #120, #2081, works index, and the taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked above, incl. the berkeley-2 duplicate). Nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 name HOLD maintained. SKIP: verified-saturated. hits-hash=5facd619ef22

2026-10-05 — deepen-x slice 09300927-23 close: fresh ZH+EN re-grep (林艾德|Ed Lin|林景南) returns 10 files — hit set unchanged (TAH #120, #2081, works index, and the taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked above, incl. the berkeley-2 duplicate). Nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 name HOLD maintained. SKIP: verified-saturated. hits-hash=256c311ec218

2026-10-05 — deepen-x slice 09301000-23 close: fresh ZH+EN re-grep (林艾德|Ed Lin|林景南) returns 10 files — hit set unchanged (TAH #120, #2081, works index, and the taiwaneseamerican-org tour/interview/event records already wikilinked above, incl. the berkeley-2 duplicate). Nothing new absorbable; 林艾德 vs 林景南 name HOLD maintained. SKIP: verified-saturated. hits-hash=1d10accfdad0

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