Lin Tai-yi (; 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 Adet Lin (; May 6, 1923 – 1971) was a Chinese-American novelist and translator. She also published under the name Tan Yun. She was also known as Lin Rusi. Biography The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the Un ...

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)

References

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