1969年父亲出任台湾笔会会长。1972年到1973年父亲两度被提名为诺贝尔文学奖候选人。同时他组织了一套班子,开始编纂《林语堂当代汉英大词典》。父亲当时夜以继日地工作,常常废寝忘食。《林语堂当代汉英大词典》于1972年10月在台北出版。这是有史以来第一部由中国学者编纂的汉英词典,《纽约时报》誉之为“世界上两大语系沟 In 1969, his father served as president of the PEN Association in Taiwan. From 1972 to 1973, his father was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the same time he organized a team and began compiling ”Lin Yutang’s Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary“. His father worked day and night at night, often forgetting to eat. Lin Yutang’s Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary was published in Taipei in October 1972. This is the first Chinese-English dictionary ever compiled by Chinese scholars. The New York Times is known as the ”two major languages ​​in the world.