About Adet Lin
Lived 1923 – 1971 (aged 47–48). Adet Lin was a novelist, translator and writer.
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.
She published her first novel Flame from the Rock in 1943; the book is set in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
On May 1, 1946, she married Richard Biow, son of advertising executive Milton H. Biow.
Lin killed herself in Taipei in 1971 by hanging herself.
Selected works Her works include: Our Family (1939), with Lin Tai-yi (Anor Lin) Dawn over Chungking (1941), with Lin Tai-yi (Anor Lin) and Lin Mei Mei Flame from the Rock (1943), under pseudonym Tan Yun The Milky Way and Other Chinese Folk Tales (1961) Flower Shadows, translation of Tang dynasty poetry (1970)
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Who was Adet Lin?
writer and translator
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Adet Lin was born on 6 May 1923 in Xiamen.
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Adet Lin died in 1971 in Republic of China, Taipei.
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Adet Lin was a novelist, translator and writer.
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