Tai-yi Lin
Tai-yi Lin (Chinese: 林太乙; 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 R. Ming Lai,[4] a Hong Kong official and the couple moved to Hong Kong. Lin was editor 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]
Selected works[1]
- Our Family, autobiography (1939) with Adet Lin and Mei Mei Lin[4]
- Dawn over Chungking, autobiography (1941) with Adet Lin[4]
- The Golden Coin, novel (1946)
- The Eavesdropper, novel (1959)
- The Lilies Overgrown, novel (1960)
- Kampoon Street, novel (1964)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. p. 184. ISBN 0313289883.
- ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society (42): 11. 2003.
- 1 2 Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 168–69. ISBN 0810855771.
- 1 2 3 4 Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. pp. 360–63. ISBN 0313309116.
- ↑ Hamrin, Carol Lee; Bieler, Stacey (2011). Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Volume 3. p. 157. ISBN 1621892905.