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 and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. [3]
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. [3] She also wrote for various magazines. [1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988. [5]
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]
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 and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. [3]
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. [3] She also wrote for various magazines. [1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988. [5]
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]