Becoming American: Personal Journeys; Maya Lin

Doctoroff O'Neill, Judy · March 26, 2003

Maya Lin is a sculptor, architect, designer and craftswoman. Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she was the controversial choice to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C.. Born in Athens, Ohio, where her father was the dean of fine arts at Ohio University and her mother is a professor of literature, Lin has also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, The Woman's Table at Yale University, a 38-foot clock for Penn Station in New York City, the Peace Chapel at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and the Museum of African Art in lower Manhattan. In BECOMING AMERICAN: PERSONAL JOURNEYS, a coda to the series BECOMING AMERICAN: THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE, Bill Moyers talks with AIDS researcher David Ho, businesswoman Shirley Young, author Gish Jen, Nobel prize-winning physicist Samuel Ting and artist Maya Lin.