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Born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. She was trained as an artist and architect, and her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. Lin, a Chinese-American, came from a cultivated and artistic home. Her father was the dean of fine arts at Ohio University; her mother is a professor of literature at Ohio University. \u201cAs the child of immigrants you have that sense of, Where are you? Where\u2019s home? And trying to make a home,\u201d remarks Lin. She draws inspiration for her sculpture and architecture from culturally diverse sources, including Japanese gardens, Hopewell Indian earthen mounds, and works by American earthworks artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Her most recognizable work, the \u201dVietnam Veterans Memorial,\u201c allows the names of those lost in combat to speak for themselves, connecting a tragedy that happened on foreign soil with the soil of America\u2019s capital city, where it stands. Lin lives in New York and Colorado.<\/p>\n