My Life in “Community” Service, part 3
Me in 1991. The other Ed took my picture against a Mr. Softee truck to soften my image. When I was finished with college in 1991 and had finally secured my mining-engineering degree, I went about doing what I really wanted to finish – my literature-writing degree. It wasn’t so much that I wanted the degree itself. I was reading and writing a lot on my own. But I needed that degree because I wanted to go to journalism school. An engineering degree alone wasn’t going to...
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Ed Lin is the author of Waylaid, This Is A Bust, Snakes Can't Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Ed lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.