Oliver Chin
Oliver has written a dozen books, including the children's picture books:
| Tales from the Chinese Zodiac series | |
| The Year of the Tiger (2010) | Baltazar and the Flying Pirates (2009) |
| The Year of the Ox (2009) | Welcome to Monster Isle (2008) |
| The Year of the Rat (2008) | Julie Black Belt (2007) |
| The Year of the Pig (2007) | Timmy and Tammy's Train of Thought (2007) |
| The Year of the Dog (2006) | The Adventures of WonderBaby (2005) |
Previously in 2002 he wrote The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man, which Publishers Weekly called a "clever twist on the traditional sports biography" and The Honolulu Advertiser praised as "meticulously researched and will interest the phenom's thousands of fans." In the same year he wrote and illustrated the graphic novel 9 of 1: A Window to the World which received 2003 Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Myers Award that "commends works that extend our understanding of the root causes of bigotry and the range of options we as humans have in constructing alternative ways to share power."
Oliver had spoken on NPR, FoxSports and Pacifica Radio, and at colleges such as Yale, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, USC, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, University of Michigan, De Anza, San Francisco State University, and City College of San Francisco. He has read at diverse community venues nationwide such as the US Census Bureau, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, De Young Museum, Oakland Museum, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Bowers Museum, Kidspace Children's Museum, Huntington Library, and Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles.
Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, he has conducted comics workshops at dozens of public libraries and schools, and is an entertainment columnist for Comics and Games Retailer magazine and reviewer for Comics Buyer's Guide. Having graduated magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard, where he was the cartoonist for the Harvard Crimson, he lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife and two sons.
Oliver welcomes invitations from schools, libraries, and community venues and he reads and teaches at dozens of locales each year.
Reviews
"Oliver Chin seems to be my customer's favorite author! :) Really, I'm thrilled with the books and my customers are too!" - Jaminga, Portland, Oregon"[Oliver Chin's 9 of 1: A Window to the World] has to be among the best full length comics I've ever read. It's not only an interesting attempt at activism via comic form, it has that earnest Oxford Group-type mania for completion that still gives one a chill of pleasure."
- author Kevin Killian
