# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tao-lin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:43:30.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tao-lin"
name: "Tao Lin"
slug: "tao-lin"
description: "Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, as well as an extensive assortment of online content."
tagline: "American novelist (1983-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tao_Lin_in_2010_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1983-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.33
  momentum:             0.4226247219574198
  historical:           11.05141333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/tao_lin"
    handle:    "tao_lin"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.taolin.us/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E9%9F%9C"
    title: "林韜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تاو لين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تاو لين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "تاو لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "تاو لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B9%D5%A1%D5%B8_%D4%BC%D5%AB%D5%B6"
    title: "Թաո Լին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin"
    title: "Tao Lin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4567898"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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