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Born in the U.S. in 1952 to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended five colleges: Linfield College, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.A. with a double major in English and Linguistics, followed by her M.A. in Linguistics. She worked as a language development specialist for county-wide programs serving developmentally disabled children, birth to five, and later became director for a demonstration project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to mainstream multicultural children with developmental disabilities into early childhood programs. In 1981, she became a freelance business writer, working with management consulting and telecommunications companies, including IBM and AT&T.

In 1985, Amy attended her first fiction workshop at the Community of Writers in Palisades Tahoe. She and several participants formed a writers group, led by author&nb

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Amy Tan, for expanding the American literary canon. By bravely exploring experiences of immigrant families, heritage, memories, and poignant struggles, Amy Tan’s writing makes sense of the present through the past and adds ground-breaking narrative to the diverse sweep of American life and literature.

Growing up in a quadrilingual (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghainese) immigrant family in Oakland, California, writer Amy Tan developed an appreciation for languages and a fascination for words. “My father and I would read the thesaurus,” says Tan. “He was very interested in what a word contains.” But, as Tan explains, “Words, to me, hold so much but not enough. I had to create stories to make me feel understood.”

Since Tan’s first novel The Joy Luck Club captured readers’ imaginations in 1989, she has devoted herself to telling stories—stories of relationships, immigrants, generations, memories, and places in time. Called “a jewel of a book” by the New York Times, The Joy Luck Club narrates the stories of four Chinese immigrant women and th

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Amy Tan

American novelist (born 1952)

Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She is also known for other novels, short story collections, children's books, and a memoir.

Tan has earned a number of awards acknowledging her contributions to literary culture, including the National Humanities Medal, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service.

Tan has written several other novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), Saving Fish from Drowning (2005), and The Valley of Amazement (2013). Tan has also written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series that aired on PBS. Tan's latest book is The Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024), an illustrated account of her experiences with birding and the 2016-era sociopolitical climate.

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