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Currently, Grace Lin is 50 years, 6 months and 5 days old. Grace Lin will celebrate 51rd birthday on a Saturday 17th of May 2025. Below we countdown to Grace Lin upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Grace Lin |
| Occupation | Children's Author |
| Age | 50 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 17, 1974 (New York) |
| Birthday | May 17 |
| Town/City | New York |
| Nationality | New York |
Grace Lin’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Grace Lin was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Author and Illustrator of such acclaimed children's books as Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog, and Olvina Swims. She received a Newbery Honor Book mention in 2010 and an Asian-Pacific American Literature Award honorable mention in 2007.
She received her artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design and published her first children's picture book, The Ugly Vegetables, in 1999.
She addresses the emotions of adopted children and their families in her 2007 work The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale.
The child of Taiwanese-born parents, she spent her youth in New York City. Her marriage to Robert Mercer lasted from 2001 until his death of cancer in 2007. In 2010 she married Alex Ferron; they welcomed a daughter in 2012.
She is a contemporary of fellow Taiwanese-American Writer Tao Lin.
