Lin Tai-yi

{{Short description|Chinese-American writer, editor and translator}}

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| name = Lin Tai-yi

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| birth_date = April 1, 1926

| birth_place = Beijing, Republic of China

| death_date = July 2003

|| other_names = Anor Lin
Lin Wu-Shuang

| nationality = American

| education = Columbia University

| occupation = Novelist, Magazine Editor-in-Chief

| children = 2

| parents = Lin Yutang (father)
Lin Tsuifeng (mother)

| relatives = Adet Lin (sister)
Lin Hsiang-ju (sister)

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Lin Tai-yi ({{zh|c=林太乙|poj=Lîm Thài-it}}; April 1, 1926 – July 2003){{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}} was a Chinese-American writer, editor and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.{{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 |isbn=978-0810855779}}

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 Richard Ming Lai,{{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}} 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.[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] She also wrote for various magazines. Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988.{{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 |isbn=978-1621892908}}

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.{{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}}