Lin Tai-yi

Lin Tai-yi
Born(1926-04-01)April 1, 1926
Beijing, Republic of China
DiedJuly 2003(2003-07-00) (aged 77)
Other namesAnor Lin
Lin Wu-Shuang
EducationColumbia University
OccupationsNovelist, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
Children2
Parent(s)Lin Yutang (father)
Lin Tsuifeng (mother)
RelativesAdet Lin (sister)
Lin Hsiang-ju (sister)

Lin Tai-yi (Chinese: 林太乙; pinyin: Lín Tàiyǐ; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.

The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing and moved 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, 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. She also wrote for various magazines. Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988.

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

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 184. ISBN 0313289883.
  2. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society (42): 11. 2003.
  3. 1 2 Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. pp. 168–69. ISBN 978-0810855779.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 360–63. ISBN 0313309116.
  5. ↑ The Woman behind Chinese Reader's Digest
  6. ↑ Hamrin, Carol Lee; Bieler, Stacey (2011). Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Vol. 3. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 157. ISBN 978-1621892908.