Maya Ying Lin is an artist/architect whose sudden celebrity came in 1981 from one of her project designs: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the nation's capital.
Lin was born in Ohio to parents who had immigrated here from China.
Remarkably, she won the design competition for this major memorial while she was a 21-year-old undergraduate student. The memorial is in the form of a big granite wall that displays the names of the 58,253 military men and women who died in the Vietnam War.
Since that time, Lin has gone on to design other major works, notably the Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights Memorial and a large piece of sculpture in San Francisco.
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