 She attended Hunter College High School and began working at Theater for the New City as an actress in their summer street theater when she was fourteen.Rebelling against her traditional Taiwanese family, she left home at the age of sixteen and lived in the basement of the theater, where she became acquainted with many pioneers of Off-Off Broadway, including several writers who were part of the Caffe Cino.Linchong is primarily known for her work with the writer James Purdy, which began at the age of seventeen when she met actor/director John Uecker.