Amy Tan
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Tan in 2007
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| Born | Amy Tan February 19, 1952 Oakland, California |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
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San Jose State University (BA, MA) UC Santa Cruz & UC Berkeley (dropped out) |
| Notable works | The Joy Luck Club |
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| Traditional Chinese | 譚恩美 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 谭恩美 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Tán Ēnměi |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Taam4 Jan1mei5 |
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. Her best known work is The Joy Luck Club. In 1993, director Wayne Wang adapted the book into a film.
Tan has written several other novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series that aired on PBS.
Tan was born in Oakland, California. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who traveled to the United States in order to escape the chaos of the Chinese Civil War. Tan attended Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale for one year. When she was fifteen years old, her father and older brother Peter both died of brain tumors within six months of each other.
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