Lin, Hazel (1913–1986)

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Lin, Hazel (1913–1986)

Chinese-American novelist and surgeon. Name variations: Hazel Ai Chun Lin. Born 1913 in Foochow, Fukien, China; died of a stroke, 1986, in Jersey City, NJ; Yenjing University, BS, 1932; Beijing Union Medical College, MD, 1935; University of Michigan, MS, 1938; m. Utah Tsao (chemical engineer).

Worked as endocrinologist and surgeon at Jersey City Medical Center; wrote The Physicians (1951), The Moon Vow (1958), House of Orchids (1960), and Rachel Weeping for Her Children Uncomforted (1976).

See also memoir, Weeping May Tarry, My Long Night With Cancer (1980).

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