{{Short description|Chinese-American novelist and translator}} {{Infobox person | name = Adet Lin | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Lin Feng-ju | birth_date = May 6, 1923 | birth_place = Amoy, Republic of China | death_date = 1971 (age 48) | death_place = Taipei, Republic of China | death_cause = Suicide (hanging) | other_names = Tan Yun<br>Lin Rusi | education = Columbia University | spouse = {{marriage|Richard Biow|1946}} | occupation = Novelist | children = | parents = Lin Yutang (father)<br>Lin Tsuifeng (mother) | relatives = Lin Tai-yi (sister)<br>Lin Hsiang-ju (sister)<br>Milton H. Biow (father-in-law)<br>Patricia Biow Broderick (sister-in-law)<br>James Broderick (brother-in-law)<br>Matthew Broderick (nephew) }}
'''Adet Lin''' ({{lang-zh|c=林鳳如|p=Lín Fèngrú|w=Lin Feng-ju}}; May 6, 1923 – 1971) was a Chinese-American novelist and translator. She also published under the name '''Tan Yun'''.<ref name=fister>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/thirdworldwomens0000fist |url-access=registration |title=Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |pages=[https://archive.org/details/thirdworldwomens0000fist/page/183 183]–84 |last=Fister |first=Barbara |year=1995 |isbn=0313289883}}</ref> She was also known as '''Lin Rusi'''.<ref name=qian/>
==Biography== The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the United States at the age of thirteen.<ref name=fister/> With her sisters Tai-yi and Mei Mei, she published ''Our Family'', an autobiographical work, in 1939. In 1940, with Tai-yi, she published ''Girl Rebel'', a translation of the autobiography of Xie Bingying. The sisters published a second book, ''Dawn over Chungking'', in 1941. After studying at Columbia University, she went on to work for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China from 1943 to 1946. Afterwards, she returned to the United States and worked for the United States Information Agency and the Voice of America.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=og-ovWe6UNEC&pg=PA166 |title=Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater |pages=166–67 |last=Xu |first=Wenying |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=978-0810873940}}</ref>
She published her first novel ''Flame from the Rock'' in 1943; the book is set in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.<ref name=nelson>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/asianamericannov00nels_0 |url-access=registration |title=Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |pages=[https://archive.org/details/asianamericannov00nels_0/page/204 204]–06 |last=Nelson |first=Emmanuel Sampath |year=2000 |isbn=0313309116}}</ref>
On May 1, 1946, she married Richard Biow, son of advertising executive Milton H. Biow.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szY7DwAAQBAJ&q=Richard+Biow&pg=PA396|first=Suoqiao |last=Qian|title=Lin Yutang and China's Search for Modern Rebirth|pages=396 |publisher= Palgrave Macmillan|date=October 20, 2017|isbn=978-9811046568}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Adet Lin, 23, daughter of Chinese author Lin Yutang, and her husband, Richard M. Biow, 26, are shown in their apartment in Charlestown, Mass., after their marriage was revealed by the brides father who announced they had eloped. |publisher=Mount Carmel Item|date= May 6, 1946|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7035120/mount_carmel_item/ }}</ref>
Lin killed herself in Taipei in 1971 by hanging herself.<ref name="qian">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaospjE51-8C&pg=PA252 |title=Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity |page=252 |last=Qian |first=Suoqiao |year=2011 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9004192133}}</ref>
== Selected works == Her works include:<ref name="nelson" /> * ''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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