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.

Feb 15, 2025 · Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952, Oakland, California, U.S.) is an American author best known for her novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience.

Through her unique insight and gift as an author and artist, Amy exposes a world of intrigue, beauty, even humor about the birds we all share this world with.” —Keith Hansen, author of Hansen’s Field Guide to Birds of the Sierra Nevada “Amy Tan’s bird journals can change the way you see the world.

Amy Tan is known for her lyrically written (using flowing, melodic language) tales of emotional conflict between Chinese American mothers and daughters separated by generational and cultural differences. Amy Ruth Tan was born in Oakland, California, on February 19, 1952.

Apr 2, 2014 · Who Is Amy Tan? Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer and novelist. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. The book ...

Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking author that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation...

Feb 1, 2021 · Tan is the subject of the American Masters documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, which premiered at Sundance in 2021. In addition, she is an instructor of a MasterClass on Fiction Writing....

Amy Tan was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the International Orange Prize. She is the recipient of many honors, including the Commonwealth Gold Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the 2024 NYPL Library Lion.

Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi; born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose novels include The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish From Drowing, and The Valley of Amazement.

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.