Tom Lin
Novelist and PhD Student
Tom Lin is the author of The
Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown), praised by Booklist as a “beautifully imagined first
novel… an extraordinary epic with page-turning, often cinematic action that
transcends the parameters of genre fiction.”
Lin
was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A
graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program in English at
the University of California, Davis.
Recorded: October 5, 2021