Editing Maya Lin (section)

==Early life and education==
Maya Lin was born in [[Athens, Ohio]]. Her parents emigrated from [[China]] to the United States, her father in 1948 and her mother in 1949, and settled in Ohio before Lin was born.<ref name="NYTimes2006">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/nyregion/thecity/05maya.html|author=Paul Berger|title=Ancient Echoes in a Modern Space|work=The New York Times|date=November 5, 2006|access-date=January 2, 2009|archive-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616030902/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/nyregion/thecity/05maya.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father, Henry Huan Lin, born in [[Fuzhou]], Fujian, was a [[ceramist]] and dean of the [[Ohio University]] College of Fine Arts. Her mother, Julia Chang Lin, born in Shanghai, was a poet and professor of literature at Ohio University. She is the "half" niece of [[Lin Huiyin]], who was an American-educated artist and poet, and said to have been the first female architect in modern China.<ref name="RoweAndSeng">{{cite book|author=Peter G. Rowe|author2=Seng Kuan|name-list-style=amp|title=Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|year=2004|isbn=978-0-262-68151-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9irZf11s4NkC}}</ref> [[Lin Juemin]] and Lin Yin Ming, both of whom were among the 72 martyrs of the [[Second Guangzhou uprising]], were cousins of her grandfather.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0qHNt3ZU4wC&pg=PA5|title=Maya Lin: A Biography|author=Donald Langmead|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37854-6|page=5}}</ref> Lin Chang-min, a [[Hanlin Academy|Hanlin]] of Qing dynasty and the emperor's teacher, fathered Lin Huiyin with his wife, while Maya Lin's father Henry Huan Lin was Lin Chang-Min’s son by his [[Concubinage|concubine]].<ref>{{cite book|page=56|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|author=Tom Lashnits|title=Maya Lin|series=Asian Americans of Achievement Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcwyNT2DzIsC&pg=PA56|isbn=978-1-4381-0036-4}}</ref>

According to Lin, she "didn't even realize" she was ethnically [[Han Chinese|Chinese]] until later in life, and that only in her 30s did she acquire an interest in her cultural background.<ref name="AAM">{{cite web|url=http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915223311/http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/mayalin.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-15|title=Between Art and Architecture: The Memory Works of Maya Lin|publisher=[[American Association of Museums]]|date=July–August 2008|access-date=December 30, 2008}}</ref>

Lin has said that she did not have many friends when growing up, stayed home a lot, loved to study, and loved school. While still in high school she took courses at [[Ohio University]] where she learned to cast bronze in the school's foundry.<ref name="Seeing the World Differently">{{cite web|title=Maya Lin Biography and Interview|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/#interview|access-date=March 18, 2020|archive-date=November 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109104758/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lin0int-1#interview|url-status=live}}</ref> She graduated in 1977 from [[Athens High School (Ohio)|Athens High School]] in [[The Plains, Ohio]], after which she attended [[Yale University]] where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 and a [[Master of Architecture]] in 1986.<ref name="FAMSF"/>