About Tai-yi Lin
Lived 1926 – 2003 (aged 77). Tai-yi Lin was a Taiwanese journalist, translator, university teacher and writer.
Lin Tai-yi (; April 1, 1926 was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.
The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing 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 wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17.
Selected works Source: 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)
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Who was Tai-yi Lin?
writer and translator (1926-2003)
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Tai-yi Lin was born on 1 April 1926 in Beijing.
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Tai-yi Lin died on 5 July 2003.
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Tai-yi Lin was a journalist, translator, university teacher and writer.
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Tai-yi Lin was Taiwanese.
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