# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grace-lin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:20.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grace-lin"
name: "Grace Lin"
slug: "grace-lin"
description: "Grace Lin is a Taiwanese-American children's writer and illustrator. She is a Newbery, Geisel, and Caldecott honoree, known for contributing to and advocating for Asian American representation and diversity in children’s literature. She has published more than 25 books, all of which are written for young and middle-grade audiences. Much of her work features young Asian and Asian American characters in both everyday and fantastical settings."
tagline: "Author and illustrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grace_lin_8125776.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.830636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gracelin.com/index.php"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c985668c-cc95-4e83-b5e2-9223d47fa6c7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "غريس لين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Lin"
    title: "Grace Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "گریس لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Лин, Грейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Lin"
    title: "Grace Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Lin"
    title: "Grace Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Lin"
    title: "Grace Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5591266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump