Zhang Lin

Zhang Lin, born in 1967, graduated from the Department of Journalism at Fudan University. She is a senior editor at Gansu Daily, a member of the China Writers Association, a council member of the Gansu Writers Association, and one of the "Eight Outstanding Children's Literature Writers of Gansu." She began writing children's literature in 1995; her representative works include The Song of the Waist Saber, Grassland Mother, If the Clouds Knew, and I Wait for You in the Desert, and she has received awards such as the Bing Xin Children's Literature New Work Award. The library holds 14 of her works, spanning philosophy, popular science, classical literature, industrial technology, and finance. These range from reflective and popular-science titles such as Winning Happiness and A History of World Plant Culture to illustrated editions of the four great classical novels and Outlaws of the Marsh, as well as professional works such as Circuits and Analog Electronics and A Panorama of China's Digital Economy Policy. She combines the rigor of a news editor with the warmth of a children's author, writing plainly and clearly with attention to both knowledge and readability.