# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lin-haiyin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:48:51.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lin-haiyin"
name: "Lin Haiyin"
slug: "lin-haiyin"
description: "Lin Haiyin, also named Amy Lin, was a Taiwanese writer and editor. Of Miaoli Hakka descent, She was born in Osaka, Japan, and lived in Itahashi Town (板橋街), Taihoku Prefecture until the age of four before relocating to Peking, China. Lin worked as a journalist and editor for the World Journal (世界日報) in Peking before moving back to Taiwan with her family in 1948. In Taiwan, she served as an editor for the Mandarin Daily News (國語日報) and as the editor of the United Daily News (聯合報) supplement. She is best known for her 1960 book Memories of Peking: South Side Stories (城南舊事), a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Peking."
tagline: "Taiwanese writer (1918–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%9E%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%9F%B3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-03-18"
deathDate: "2001-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.13
  momentum:             1.733333333333333
  historical:           4.883628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Haiyin"
    title: "Lin Haiyin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Haijin"
    title: "Lin Haijin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%9F%B3"
    title: "林海音"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Линь Хайинь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%9F%B3"
    title: "林海音"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6143357"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump