SYNOPSIS

Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. In 1985, she
wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first
novel The Joy Luck Club. The book explored the relationship between Chinese
women and their Chinese-American daughters. It received the Los Angeles
Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages. Tan lives in San
Francisco and New York.
PROFILE

Writer. Born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern
California, but when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in
1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she
attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United
States for college, attending Linfield College in Oregon, San Jose City College,
San Jose State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the
University of California at Berkeley.

After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a

corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for
a writing workshop, which formed the early foundation for her first novelThe Joy
Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the relationship between
Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the
longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck
Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into
a major motion picture for which Tan co-wrote the screenplay.

Her other two books, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) and The Hundred Secret
Senses (1995), have also appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Her
latest novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, was published in 2001. Tan has also
written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and The Chinese Siamese
Cat (1994), the latter of which was adapted to television for PBS.

Amy Tan has been married to her husband, Lou DeMattei, for over twenty
years. They live in San Francisco and New York.

NOVELS

 The Joy Luck Club (1989)

 The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
 The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
 The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)
 Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)
 Rules for Virgins (2012; an excerpt from The Valley of Amazement)
 The Valley of Amazement (2013)

CHILDREN BOOKS

 The Moon Lady, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1992)

 Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1994)
NON-FICTION

 Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an
Attitude (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver) (1994)
 Mother (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)
 The Best American Short Stories 1999 (Editor, with Katrina Kenison) (1999)
 The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003, ISBN 9780399150746)
 Hard Listening, co-authored in July 2013, an interactive ebook about her participation in a
writer/musician band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. Published by Coliloquy, LLC.[15]