Amy Tan (February 19, 1952) is an American writer 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. is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the film, see The Joy Luck Club (film) The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. ...

She 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. The Kitchen Gods Wife is a book published in 1991 and written by Amy Tan. ... The Bonesetters Daughter is Amy Tans fourth novel. ... Sagwa the name of a cat in the childrens book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by author Amy Tan (who wrote her novel The Joy Luck Club). ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...

Currently, she is the literary editor for West, Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine. A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ...

Did an uncredited rewrite on The Replacement Killers at the request of Mira Sorvino. The Replacement Killers is a 1998 film, directed by Antoine Fuqua. ... Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...

Life and influences

Amy’s father, John Tan, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who came to America to escape from the Chinese Civil War which was going on at that time. Her mother, Daisy, (who inspired Tan’s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife) divorced her first husband (who was abusive) and lost custody to their three daughters and fled to America on the last boat before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her parents had then met and married, and had three children, Amy and her two brothers.

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California. "When she was eight years old, she had won her first prize in a writing contest for elementary students with an essay entitled "What the Library Means to Me.""

Amy’s father and oldest brother had both died of brain tumors within one year of each other. So Daisy, Tan’s mother, moved her and two children to Switzerland. Switzerland is where Tan finished her high school years, but by this time, Tan and her mother were constantly fighting. Amy and her mother did not speak for six months after she had switched colleges. Instead of continuing at a Baptist college her mother had chosen for her, she transferred to San Jose City College with her boyfriend. Not only did Amy not finish going to the school her mother chose,she had also not followed the major her mother had wished for her, choosing to study English and linguistics instead of pre-Med. Tan received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in both English and linguistics at San Jose State University. During the year of 1974, Amy married her boyfriend Louis DeMattei. They had later moved to San Francisco to settle down.

Her husband, Louis, was a lawyer and practiced tax law. Tan had now been studying for a doctorate in linguistics, first at the University of California at Santa Cruz but then later onto study at Berkeley.

Tan had started a business writing firm with a partner. Just as her new career had started to take off, her mother became really sick. She promised her that if she got better, then they would travel back to China so Daisy could see her daughter that she had left behind almost forty years before. Daisy, regained her health, so Amy and her mothered left for China in 1987. Tan says it was a revelation for her. "It gave her a new perspective on her often-difficult relationship with her mother, and inspired her to complete the book of stories she had promised her agent."

The first book that Tan ever bought was The Catcher in the Rye. At the time, owning the book was considered to be a badge of rebellion for students in her California school. The first copy Tan owned was confiscated from her when she was 14 years old to protect her from its supposed bad influence. This early experience with censorship left an impression on Tan, who notes: "I grew up to be such a stubborn person. I learned I had to think for myself."^[1] The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

As a child Tan was very rebellious. She credits her rebellious nature with starting her career as a writer. Having started out as a pre-med student in college, and being told by her teachers that math and science were her best skills, Tan changed to become an English major still in her first year of college. Just days after, her employer told her that writing was her "worst skill" and that she should work to become an account manager, Tan took up non-fictional writing as a freelancer.^[2] Tan received a master's degree in linguistics at San José State University. Her first job was as a children's speech-language pathologist. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... San José State University, commonly shortened to San José State and SJSU, is the founding campus of what became the California State University system. ... It has been suggested that Speech pathology, Speech therapy, Phoniatrics be merged into this article or section. ...

Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide; Tan believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression.^{[citation needed]} Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ... Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder, or unipolar depression when compared to bipolar disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ...

Amy has late-stage Neuroborreliosis, which is Lyme Disease. She has suffered from this disease since 1999.ref>Amy Tan on Lyme Disease on Amy Tan's website; currently only accessible as a cached file (retrieved 9 April 2007)</ref> Tan was diagnosed only when her disease had already reached a late stage, and had symptoms of memory lapses, that could lead to having Alzheimer's (her mother was diagnosed Alzheimer's before dying on November 22, 1999). Lyme disease (Borreliosis) is a bacterial infection with a spirochete from the species complex Borrelia burgdorferi, which is most often acquired from the bite of an infected Ixodes, or black-legged, tick, also known as a deer tick. ... Alzheimers disease (AD), also known simply as Alzheimers, is a neurodegenerative disease that, in its most common form, is found in people over age 65. ...

Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the literary garage band Rock Bottom Remainders with Dave Barry, Matt Groening and Stephen King, Along with King, she appeared in an episode of The Simpsons^{[citation needed]} This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Rock Bottom Remainders is a rock & roll band consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors. ... For the English musician, see Dave Berry (musician). ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[2] in Portland, Oregon;[3] his family name is pronounced ) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons,[4] Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...

Accomplishments

• served as Co-producer and Co-screenwriter with Ron Bass for the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club
• was the Creative Consultant for Sagwa, the Emmy-nominated television series for children
• Her essays and stories are found in hundreds of anthologies and textbooks, and they are assigned as "required reading" in many high schools and universities
• appeared as herself in the animated series "The Simpsons."
• performed as narrator with the San Francisco Symphony and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra playing an original score for "Sagwa" by composer Nathan Wang
• lectured internationally at universities, including Stanford, Oxford, Jagellonium, Beijing, and Georgetown both in Washington DC and Doha, Qatar

Awards

• finalist National Book Award
• finalist National Book Critics Circle Award
• finalist Los Angeles Time Fiction Prize
• Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
• Commonwealth Gold Award
• American Library Associations's Notable Books
• American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults
• selected for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read
• New York Times Notable Book
• Booklist Editors Choice
• finalist for the Orange Prize
• nominated for the Orange Prize
• nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award
• Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged
• Emmy Award
• Parents Choice, Best Television Program for Children
• shortlisted BAFTA Film award, best screenplay adaptation
• shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation

Bibliography

Novels

• The Joy Luck Club (1989)
• The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
• The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) (Shortlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize)
• The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)
• Saving Fish from Drowning (2005).

For the film, see The Joy Luck Club (film) The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. ... The Kitchen Gods Wife is a book published in 1991 and written by Amy Tan. ... The Orange Prize for Fiction Launched in 1996 for female writers, the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction is the United Kingdoms largest annual literary award for a single novel. ... The Bonesetters Daughter is Amy Tans fourth novel. ...

Anthologies edited

• The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) (with Katrina Kenison)

Children's books

• The Moon Lady (1992) (with Gretchen Schields)
• Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994) (with Gretchen Schields)

Non fiction

• Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (1994) (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver)
• Mother (1996) (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark)
• The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003)

References

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External link

• "Amy Tan, Ticked Off About Lyme" Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation reprint of article by J.J. McCoy, Washington Post, August 5, 2003, retrieved March 16, 2006

Quotes

• "I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable." [1]

• Tan began her talk by launching into an anecdote about coming upon a Cliffs Notes version of her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club," in a bookstore. Surprised to see her work among Cliffs Notes' "Lord Jim", "Ulysses" and "Hamlet" (all of which she used in college to get through her English literature classes), her first thought was, "I'm not dead yet." (The Opposite of Fate 10)

• "I'm sitting in the $4.95 bookstore bleachers along with Shakespeare, Conrad and Joyce," she said. "I acknowledge that there is a fundamental difference that separates us. I am a contemporary author and they are not. And since I'm not dead yet, I can talk back." (The Opposite of Fate 10)

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad, originally published in Blackwoods Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. ... Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... Bleachers is a term used to describe the raised, tiered stands found by sports fields or at other spectator events. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... // Conrad I of Germany Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III of Germany Conrad IV of Germany Conrad V of Germany Conrad I, Duke of Bavaria Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria Conrad of Burgundy Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia Conrad of Gelnhausen Conrad of Italy... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...

External links

• Amy Tan Home Page
• Official agency page
• 1989 audio interview by Don Swaim
• Amy Tan talks about her book Saving Fish From Drowning
• Amy Tan interview on Academy of Achievement

"http://www.amytan.net/ATBiography.aspx" Don Swaim is an American journalist, writer, and broadcaster. ...

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