| Adet Lin | |
| 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) |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Columbia University |
| Spouse: | Richard Biow |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Father: | Lin Yutang |
Adet Lin (; May 6, 1923 - 1971) was a Chinese-American novelist and translator. She also published under the name Tan Yun.[1] She was also known as Lin Rusi.
The oldest daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Amoy and came to the United States at the age of thirteen.[1] 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.[2]
She published her first novel Flame from the Rock in 1943; the book is set in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.[3]
On May 1, 1946, she married Richard Biow, son of advertising executive Milton H. Biow.[4] [5]
Lin killed herself in Taipei in 1971 by hanging herself.[6]
Her works include: