Tai-yi Lin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Tai-yi Lin

writer and translator

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1926

Date of Death: 05-Jul-2003

Profession: translator, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Tai-yi Lin (Chinese: ???; Pe?h-oe-ji: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a Chinese-American writer and translator.
She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing 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, 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.
She also wrote for various magazines.
Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C.
in 1988.She wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17.Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer.
The two sisters translated Girl Rebel, the autobiography of Xie Bingying.