{{Short description|Chinese-American writer, editor and translator}} {{Infobox person | name = Lin Tai-yi | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = April 1, 1926 | birth_place = Beijing, Republic of China | death_date = July 2003 || other_names = Anor Lin<br>Lin Wu-Shuang | education = Columbia University | occupation = Novelist, Magazine Editor-in-Chief | children = 2 | parents = Lin Yutang (father)<br>Lin Tsuifeng (mother) | relatives = Adet Lin (sister)<br>Lin Hsiang-ju (sister) }}

'''Lin Tai-yi''' ({{lang-zh|c=林太乙|p=Lín Tàiyǐ}}; April 1, 1926<ref name=fister/> &ndash; July 2003)<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.hkts.org.hk/bulletin/bulletin42.pdf |title=Obituary |page=11 |journal=Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society |issue=42 |year=2003}}</ref> was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as '''Anor Lin''' or '''Lin Wu-Shuang'''.<ref name=xu>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZL6a3CiaHBEC&pg=PA168 |title=Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater |pages=168–69 |last=Xu |first=Wenying |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=978-0810855779}}</ref>

The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing<ref name=fister/> and moved 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,<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/360 360]–63 |last=Nelson |first=Emmanuel Sampath |year=2000 |isbn=0313309116}}</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.taiwan-panorama.com/Articles/Details?Guid=96e55d28-81f9-40e9-8315-e40d3ea5cfb2&langId=3&CatId=11&srsltid=AfmBOoreboSCrqx1TL4j2MMyEhXzvoJng_3KtFlqReODsLb9LY22ghS8 The Woman behind Chinese Reader's Digest]</ref><ref name=xu/> She also wrote for various magazines.<ref name=fister/> Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1988.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TndJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT157 |title=Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China |page=157 |last=Hamrin |first=Carol Lee |author2=Bieler, Stacey |volume=3 |year=2011 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1621892908}}</ref>

She wrote her first novel ''War Tide'' (1943) at the age of 17.<ref name=nelson/>

Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer. The two sisters translated ''Girl Rebel'', the autobiography of Xie Bingying.<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 |page=[https://archive.org/details/thirdworldwomens0000fist/page/184 184] |last=Fister |first=Barbara |year=1995 |isbn=0313289883}}</ref>

== Selected works == Source:<ref name=fister/> * ''Our Family'', autobiography (1939) with Adet Lin and Mei Mei Lin<ref name=nelson/> * ''Dawn over Chungking'', autobiography (1941) with Adet Lin<ref name=nelson/> * ''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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