Lin Tai-yi
# Lin Tai-yi

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

The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing 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, 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.

## Selected works

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