Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Melaka City, Melaka, Malaysia

Profession: writer, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States, Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) was born in Malacca Malaysia.
She is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism.
Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman.
Among several other awards that she has received, her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, received the 1997 American Book Award.