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Francie Lin

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Francie Lin

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Francie Lin
  • Chinese: —
  • Era: -
  • Geography: Salt Lake City/Utah
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • Harvard University — B.S.

Employment

  • -r — Novelist
  • Threepenny Review — 1998-2004 — Associate Editor

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Novelist at the center of a documented community milestone: her debut The Foreigner (2008) won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author — recorded as community news in the TAH story corpus; also a June 2008 Book Sense pick.
  • Band-A community interview via TaiwaneseAmerican.org: Literary author Francie Lin talks about a different kind of Foreigner (2008-07-11) — Harvard graduate, Fulbright Fellow to Taiwan (2001), former editor at The Threepenny Review, Berkeley (1998–2004 per TAH profile); the novel follows Taiwanese-American protagonist Emerson Chang into Taipei’s criminal underworld; she appeared at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop NYC on 2008-07-24.
  • Her TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entry: 06.
  • Corpus check re-run 2026-09-21: hit set = Edgar record, Band-A interview, whoswho1158, works/index only — all already absorbed above; nothing new absorbable.
  • HOLD: conflict in geography — TAH profile says Salt Lake City/Utah; the 2008 interview says she lives with her family in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Not merged.

Sources

Corpus re-scan 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09210800-19): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged from prior absorption; all records already wikilinked above. SKIP-deepen; nothing new absorbable. Re-verify 2026-09-22 (deepen-x slice 09220500-23): fresh grep — hit set = Edgar record, whoswho1158, Band-A interview, works/index; all absorbed. SKIP. Re-verify 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221400-10): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged (own records + works/index only), all records already wikilinked above. SKIP; nothing new absorbable. Re-verify 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230800-24): fresh grep — hit set = Edgar record, whoswho1158, Band-A interview, works/index; all absorbed. SKIP. Re-verify 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240800-22): fresh grep — hit set = Edgar record, whoswho1158, Band-A interview, works/index; all absorbed. SKIP.

  • Re-verify 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09251023-11): fresh ZH+EN grep works/+articles/ — hit set identical to absorbed set (own TAH records + works index); verified-saturated, SKIP; nothing new absorbable.
  • Re-verify 2026-09-30 (deepen-x slice 09260800-27): fresh ZH+EN grep — hit set identical (Edgar record, whoswho1158, Band-A interview, works/index); all absorbed. SKIP; nothing new absorbable.
  • Re-verify 2026-10-04 (deepen-x slice 09300321-5): fresh ZH+EN grep (Francie Lin) works/+articles/ — hit set identical (Edgar record, whoswho1158, Band-A interview, works/index); all absorbed. verified-saturated, SKIP; nothing new absorbable. hits-hash=80027b9bbaa9

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