1. Amy Tan - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Amy Tan (born 19 February 1952) is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore motherdaughter relationships as well as relationships between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan

Amy Tan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Amy Tan Born February 19 Oakland California Occupation ... American Writing period 20th Century Debut works The Joy Luck Club Website Amy Tan's Homepage Amy Tan (born 19 February ) is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore mother-daughter relationships as well as relationships between Chinese American women and their immigrant parents. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club , became a commercially successful film. Tan has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses , and The Bonesetter's Daughter , and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings . Her most recent book, Saving Fish From Drowning , explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. In addition, 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 airing on PBS . She has also appeared on PBS in a short spot on encouraging children to write. Currently, she is the

2. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Amy Tan Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California in 1952, several years after her mother and father immigrated to the San Francisco Bay area from China. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-tan-amy.asp

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"Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records Amy Tan Amy Tan sings on the "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records "Lit-Rock Sampler #1" and the "Stranger Than Fiction" double CD. She was a member of the Rock Bottom Remainders . She also has recorded the spoken-word lecture "Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects." Photo Album Live Appearances Other Web Sites ... Ordering Biographical Information Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. Her father, who was educated in Beijing and worked for the United States Information Service after the war, immigrated to America in 1947. Her mother came to the United States in 1949 shortly before the Communists seized control of Shanghai; she was forced to leave behind three daughters from a previous marriage. Ms. Tan grew up in Fresno, Oakland, and Berkeley, as well as the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area. When she was fourteen, her father and older brother both died of brain tumors. Following this double tragedy, her mother took Amy and her younger brother to live in Europe, where she graduated from high school in Montreaux, Switzerland in 1969. From 1969 to 1976, Ms. Tan attended five colleges: Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where she met her husband, Lou DeMattei; San Jose City College; San Jose State University, from which she received a B.A. with a double major in English and Linguistics; University of California/Santa Cruz; and University of California/Berkeley.

5. Amy Tan --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Amy Tan American author of novels about ChineseAmerican women and the immigrant experience. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9099916/Amy-Tan

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7. Amy Tan Biography And Summary Amy Tan biography with 179 pages of profile on Amy Tan sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Amy_Tan

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Amy Tan (1952-) Amy Tan Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrant parents. After Tan's father and brother both died of brain tumors, her family settled in Montreux, Switzerland, where Tan graduated from high school. Tan's higher education spanned five different colleges. She attended Linfield College in Oregon, San Jose City College, and San Jose State University for her bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics. She then earned her M.A. in Linguistics from San Jose State University before enrolling in the Ph.D. program in linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. After the murder of one of her closest friends, Tan explored different paths, including consulting and directing for organizations helping disabled children, as well as working as a freelance business writer, before finding her calling as a fiction writer. When asked about why she chose to write about issues close to her family, Tan responded, "I said to myself when I was 17, 'I'm not going to have anything to do with anything Chinese when I leave home. I'm going to be completely American.' ... So if you were to say to me when I was 17, 'You know, one day you're going to write a book about Chinese people and about your relationship with your mother and how much you love your mother,' and all this stuff, I would have said ... 'You are absolutely crazy. There is no way I would ever do that.'" Despite her initial tentativeness about expresing her heritage, Tan has since published several other bestselling novels and one work of nonfiction.

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Amy Tan Greetings. The following materials are intended to provide an introduction to Amy Tan. They were assembled from the World Wide Web, ERIC Database, and a variety of other bibliographic resources. Instructions for acquiring the full text of the ERIC records are presented at the end of this file. Ping-Yun Sun Reference Specialist Alphabetically arranged listing of bibliographies Categorically arranged listing of bibliographies Internet Sites Amy Tan's Biography Anniina's Amy Tan's Page Voices From the Gaps: Amy Tan Amy Tan : The Steven Barclay Agency ... Geometry.Net - Authors: Tan Amy Online Discussion Groups Amy Tan Forum Frigate Citations From the ERIC Database AN: ED454140 AU: Abbey,-Cherie-D., ed. TI: Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 9. PY: 2001 AV: Omnigraphics, Inc., 615 Griswold Street, Detroit, MI 48226; Tel: 800-234-1340 (Toll Free); Web site NT: For related volumes in the Author Series, see ED 390 725, ED 434 064, ED 446 010, and ED 448 069. PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage.

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Amy Tan AKA Amy Ruth Tan Born: 19-Feb Birthplace: Oakland, CA Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Asian Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Joy Luck Club Resides in San Francisco. Father: John Tan (electrical engineer, Baptist minister, d. brain tumor) Mother: Daisy Husband: Lou DeMattei (attorney, m. 1976) High School: (Montreau, Switzerland) University: MA Linguistics, San Jose State University University: UC Santa Cruz University: UC Berkeley The Rock Bottom Remainders Vocalist 1992-present Academy of Achievement Friends of Hillary Hillary Clinton for President Chinese Ancestry Risk Factors: Agoraphobia Smoking Author of books: The Joy Luck Club , novel) The Kitchen God's Wife , novel) The Hundred Secret Sense , novel) The Bonesetter's Daughter , novel) Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

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13. The Opposite Of Fate By Amy Tan Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels ofcultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/essay/fr/oppositeFate.htm

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14. Anniina's Amy Tan Page A site for amy tan, author of The Joy Luck Club . Includes biography, books, reviews, essays, and other study resources. http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/

Amy Tan was born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from high school in Montreux, Switzerland, and received her master's degree in Linguistics from San Jose State University. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. For her first book, The Joy Luck Club , Amy Tan won The National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989. She has been married for the past twenty-some years to Lou DeMattei . They live in San Francisco and New York with their little dogs, Yorkshire terriers Bubba and Lilli. Amy Tan enjoys hiking, which is probably how she contracted Lyme disease in 1999. For a long time, it was debilitating, hindering her ability to write, and to tour with the literary garage band, Rock Bottom Remainders , of which she is a key member, belting out rock tunes in daring costumes, alongside other American writers, such as Stephen King and Dave Barry. Nothing can keep Amy Tan down for long, though, and she has avidly sought to bring better awareness of Lyme disease, as well as supported efforts for more research, and helped found LymeAid 4 Kids To find out more about Amy Tan, the fascinating person behind the books, I recommend reading her wonderful book of autobiographical essays

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16. Amy Tan Biography -- Academy Of Achievement amy tan was born in Oakland, California. Her family lived in several communities in Northern California before settling in Santa Clara. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0bio-1

The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like Amy Tan's story, you might also like: Maya Lin Rita Dove John Updike Frank McCourt and Joyce Carol Oates Amy Tan's recommended reading: The Catcher in the Rye Amy Tan also appears in the videos: Changing Lanes The Power of Words Teachers can find prepared lesson plans featuring Amy Tan in the Achievement Curriculum section: The Power of Words Related Links: SALON Bookreporter.com

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Speaker Menu Russell Banks A. S. Byatt Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Terry Gross Daniel Handler Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Elizabeth Kolbert Tony Kushner Jhumpa Lahiri Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes Alexander McCall Smith W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Azar Nafisi Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Michael Ondaatje Suzan-Lori Parks Robert Pinsky David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Frank Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Marjane Satrapi Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Scott Simon Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Chris Ware Terry Tempest Williams home Best-selling Author of The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter , and Saving Fish from Drowning , all New York Times bestsellers and the recipient of various awards. She is also the author of a memoir, The Opposite of Fate The Moon Lady and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat

18. The SALON Interview: Amy Tan Online newspaper offering information on books, styles, politics, business and living. http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Investors "My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. 'Libby-ah,' she'll say to me. 'Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.' And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead." S o begins Amy Tan's third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses. Although it has flown up the best-seller lists in the month since its release, the book is a risky departure for the 43-year-old writer, with its emphasis on spirits, magical time-shifts and other unearthly phenomena. Tan spoke enthusiastically about her book, but admitted that she feared it would be ridiculed as "Chinese superstition." She sat for an interview on the balcony of her San Francisco home, where she surreptitiously lit up a cigarette. "I don't smoke in public, it's not a good image, it's not a good role model," she apologized. "Not that I actively set out to be one." With her tiny Yorkshire terrier, Babbazo, snugly ensconced in her lap, Tan, a brilliant smile often belying the frankness of her words, talked about the burdens of fame, the world of Yin, and her struggles with her own emotional demons.

19. VG: Artist Biography: Tan, Amy Focuses on the lives and works of North American women writers of color. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html

Art Praxis Bios By Name By Date By Location ... Bios Amy Tan b. 1952 A man who watched me play in the park suggested that my mother allow me to play in local chess tournaments. My mother smiled graciously, an answer that meant nothing. I desperately wanted to go, but I bit back my tongue. I knew she would not let me play among strangers. So as we walked home I said in a small voice that I didn't want to play in the local tournament. They would have American rules. If I lost, I would bring shame on my family. The Joy Luck Club permissions info Jump to: Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links Biography / Criticism Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in California. She grew up surrounded by influences from both Chinese and American cultures. She has written about trying to assimilate into the mainstream, American world as a child, often at the expense of her Chinese heritage. Tan's father and brother died of brain tumors when she was fourteen years old. At this time, she also learned that her mother had been married to a different man in China and had three daughters from this marriage, a situation not unlike June's in The Joy Luck Club , her first novel.

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