At the age of fifteen, Lin Tai-yi and her sister Lin Ju-ssu, translated Diary of a Female Soldier into English and published it after her father did the editing.
十五歲時，林太乙就與姊姊林如斯一起將作家謝冰瑩的「女兵日記」譯成英文，並經她父親校訂後出版。