Lin Tai-yi

Lin Tai-yi (Chinese: 林太乙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926^[1] – July 2003)^[2] was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.^[3]

Lin Tai-yi
Born	April 1, 1926 Beijing, Republic of China
Died	July 2003
Nationality	American
Other names	Anor Lin Lin Wu-Shuang
Education	Columbia University
Occupation(s)	Novelist, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
Children	2
Parent(s)	Lin Yutang (father) Lin Tsuifeng (mother)
Relatives	Adet Lin (sister) Lin Hsiang-ju (sister)

The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing^[1] and came to the United States with her family when she was ten. Lin was educated at Columbia University. She taught Chinese at Yale. She married Richard Ming Lai,^[4] a Hong Kong official and the couple moved to Hong Kong. Lin was the Editor-in-Chief for the Hong Kong Reader's Digest from 1965 to 1988.^[5][3] She also wrote for various magazines.^[1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988.^[6]

She wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17.^[4]

Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer. The two sisters translated Girl Rebel, the autobiography of Xie Bingying.^[1]

Selected works

Source:^[1]

• Our Family, autobiography (1939) with Adet Lin and Mei Mei Lin^[4]
• Dawn over Chungking, autobiography (1941) with Adet Lin^[4]
• War Tide, novel (1943)
• The Golden Coin, novel (1946)
• The Eavesdropper, novel (1959)
• The Lilacs Overgrow, novel (1960)
• Kampoon Street, novel (1964)