Maya Lin studied building design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

• 玛亚-林在位于康涅狄格州新港的耶鲁大学学习建筑设计，二十一岁的时候，因设计位于华盛顿特区的“越南退伍军人纪念馆”获得了国家大奖。