Alan Chin
Alan Chin
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Author of Gay Friendly Novels, Short Stories, Screenplays
Male
56 years old
SAN RAFAEL, California
United States
Last Login: 7/14/2009
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Alan Chin's Interests
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| General | Writing, Traveling, Tennis | | Music | Opera, Classical, Blues, Cool Jazz | | Movies | The Hours, The Misfits, Big Eden, The History Boys, Callas Forever, Cabaret, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Brokeback Mountain, Moonstruck, Pride and Prejudice, Latter Days, Steam, The lives of others, Perfume, Sideways, Flight of the Phoenix (the original with Jimmy Stewart), Shelter, Trip to bountiful, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple, Shirley Valentine, Being Julia, Philadelphia, Crash, Breakfast at Tiffinany's | | Television | I only watch the tennis channel and movies on non-comercial channels. | | Books | Anything by Hemingway, Capote, Michael Cunningham, Richard Bach, Ann Rand, Steinbeck, E.M. Forster, Tolkin, Stegner, Le Carre, David Leavitt, Norman Maclean, Jim Grimsley, and Marcuerite Duras, as for special books:, The Uncommon Reader, Dream Boy, Atonement, The Hours, Death in Venice, Mysterious skin, Color of the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Thousand Acres, The Color Purple, Breakfast at Tiffinany's, Brideshead Revisited, The Constant Gardener, The Perisan Boy | | Heroes | Barack Obama, Harvey Milk, The character in my three novels. |
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Alan Chin's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Gay | | Body type: | Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Buddhist | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer, Novelist |
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About me:
At birth I was christened, Alan Lewis Hurlburt. I was raised in San Jose, California where I enjoyed an undistinguished childhood. After graduating high school, I served four years in the U.S. Navy where I practiced the trade of aircraft mechanic.
I attended San Francisco State University, studying the field of Data Processing, and afterwards enjoyed a twenty year career working my way from computer programmer to manager of several software development groups.
In 1991, I went back to night school and years later graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BS in Economics and a Masters in Creative Writing.
In 1999, I retired from Information Technology to devote all my time to my three hobbies: writing, traveling, and tennis. During that same timeframe, I legally changed my name to Alan Chin, so that I could share the same family name as my husband, Herman Chin.
I turned serious about my writing in 2002, and began working on my first novel, Island Song. While preparing for the publication debut of that novel (Sept, 2008 by Zumaya Publications,) I completed a second novel, The Changi Lover, which will also be published by Zumaya Publications in 2009. I am currently working on a third novel and a collection of short stories.
I live and write half of each year at my home in Northern California, and spend the other half of each year traveling the globe.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Any and all published gay authors
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