Lin Tai-yi
Chinese-American writer, editor and translator
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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 |
| Died | July 2003 (aged 77) |
| Other names | Anor Lin Lin Wu-Shuang |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupations | 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]
