Đinh Linh có nguyên danh là Tưởng Vĩ (蔣偉), tự Tịnh Chi (冰之), bút danhBăng Chỉ (靜芷), Tòng Huyên (從喧); bà sinh trưởng trong một tổ ấm tiểu quý tộc tại huyện Lâm Lễ, tỉnh Hồ Nam. Cha bà không may đã từ trần khi bà mới lên 3 tuổi, mẹ đã tảo tần nuôi bà khôn lớn và điều này đã đi vào các tác phẩm của Đinh Linh một cách sâu đậm. Do cuộc sống mỗi ngày thêm sa sút, Đinh Linh buộc phải biết tự lập từ rất sớm[1]. Vào năm 1920, theo truyền thống địa phương, Đinh Linh được sắp xếp để tới Thượng Hải kết hôn với một người bà con gần gũi, và quả thực cuộc hôn phối vội vàng không hề gây lại hạnh phúc cho thiếu nữ này.
Ding Ling xuanji [Selected Works of Ding Ling], Sichuan Renmin Chubanshe. 3 vols. 1984.
Tiểu thuyết
Meng Ke. 1927.
Shafei nüshi riji. February 1928, Xiaoshuo yuebao (short story magazine); as Miss Sophia's Diary, translated by Gary Bjorge, 1981.
Weihu. 1930.
Muqin. 1930; as Mother, translated by Tani Barlow, 1989.
1930 Chun Shanghai. 1930; as Shanghai, Spring, 1930, translated by Tani Barlow, 1989.
Zai yiyuan zhong. 1941; as In the Hospital, translated by Gary Bjorge, 1981.
Wo zai Xia cun de shihou. 1941; as When I Was in Xia Village, translated by Gary Bjorge, 1981.
Taiyang zhao zai Sanggan he shang. Guanghua shudian. September 1948; as The Sun Shines Over Sanggan River, translated by Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi, Panda Books, 1984.
Du Wanxiang. 1978; as Du Wanxiang, translated by Tani Barlow, 1989.
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