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PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates AMY TAN b.1952 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) 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 Amy Tan Photo credits Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography 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

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Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Amy Tan Author of The Bonesetter's Daughter The Hundred Secret Senses The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife , and Moon Lady , Amy Tan talks with Don Swaim about growing up as the child of immigrants, working with disabled children, participating in a writers' group, and "becoming Chinese" on her first visit to China in this 1989 interview. Listen to the Amy Tan interview with Don Swaim, 1989 (24 min. 36 sec.) Download Free RealPlayer or Search the RealPlayer Archives for a player that will work with older computers (note: version 5.0 or higher is required) For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio. Wired for Books home

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The Bonesetter's Daughter An Excerpt from The Bonesetter's Daughter Tour Schedule The Joy Luck Club 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. When she was eight, her essay, "What the Library Means to Me," won first prize among elementary school participants, for which Tan received a transistor radio and publication in the local newspaper. Upon the deaths of her brother and father in 1967 and 1968 from brain tumors, the family began a haphazard journey through Europe, before settling in Montreux, Switzerland, where Tan graduated in her junior year in 1969. For the next seven years, Tan attended five schools. She first went to Linfield Colleg e in McMinnville, Oregon, and there, on a blind date, met her future husband, Lou DeMattei. She followed him to San Jose, where she enrolled at San Jose City College. She next attended San Jose State University, and, while working two part-time jobs, became an English honor's student and a President's Scholar. In 1972, Tan graduated with honors, receiving a B.A. with a double major in English and Linguistics. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the Summer Linguistics Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1973, she earned her M.A. in Linguistics, also from San Jose State University, and then was awarded a Graduate Minority Fellowship under the affirmative action program at the University of California, Berkeley, where she enrolled as a doctoral student in linguistics.

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7. Amy Tan - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Amy Tan. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Tan (Chinese name ? , Tan Enmei), born February 19, 1952 is a Chinese American author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Amy Tan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Tan Chinese name February 19 is a Chinese American author. Born in Oakland, California to John (a Baptist minister) and Daisy ( Shanghai nurse), she was 14 when her father and elder brother died of brain tumours . With her mother and younger brother Peter, Tan moved to Montreux Switzerland shortly afterward. She received a master's degree in linguistics at San Jose State University and her first job was as a children's speech therapist Tan is best known for the critically acclaimed The Joy Luck Club , a book made into a feature film. She also wrote several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses . Her fourth and latest book is The Bonesetter's Daugther An author of what she calls "her inspiration; her mother," Tan uses traditional Chinese customs clashing with American customs as the main foundation for her works. Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide, and Amy believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression . Tan currently takes Zoloft to treat her bouts of serious depression Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the

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By Genres By Authors Par Genres Par Auteurs Discussing Books Home Reviews Critiques Games Links Contact us Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club , Amy Tan tells the stor ies of three Chinese-American women and their daughters. The Joy Luck Club is an idea thought up by one of them, Suyuan Woo, in her youth, when the Japanese were invading China and threatening to reach Kweilin, her hometown. Once a week, the Club gathers; four women who play mah jong, eat foods that bring good fortune and most importantly, tell each other joyful and amusing stories in order to forget the war and its victims. As Suyuan emigrates to San Francisco years later, she resumes the Joy Luck Club, welcoming other women of Chinese origins. After Suyuan dies, her daughter Jing-Mei, raised in America, takes her place at the mah jong table, feeling that she does not belong. And she certainly does not expect what the three old women will ask of her that night... The Joy Luck Club is composed four parts, each made of four chapters. The first and the last parts present the perspective of the four mothers while the second and third reveal their daughters' points of view. Throughout the book eight different voices, these of the women of the Joy Luck Club, progressively unravel the stories of their lives. All narrators focus on significant events, not happy events like the stories meant to be told in the Joy Luck Club, but defining moments, stories of courage or sacrifice, of resilience and acceptance, stories in which the narrators lost and found themselves or others.

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Amy Tan is the highly acclaimed award winning author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and two children's books, The Moon Lady and the Chinese Siamese Cat. Her latest novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, will be published in February 2001. The Joy Luck Club, her first novel published in 1989, immediately rose to the top of the New York Times best-seller list and was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) and The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), were also long-running favorites on the New York Times list. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, McCall's and other magazines. Her essay, "Mother Tongue", was published in The Threepenny Review and in the 1991 edition of Best American Essays. She was editor of the 1999 edition of Best American Short Stories. Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. Her father, educated in Beijing and an employee of the U. S. Information Services during the war, emigrated to America in 1947. Her mother came to the United States in 1949 and was forced to leave behind three daughters from a previous marriage. Tan grew up in Fresno, Oakland, Berkeley, and in the suburbs of San Francisco. When she was fourteen, her father and older brother both died of brain tumors. Following these tragedies, Amy lived in Europe with her mother and younger brother and graduated from high school in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1969. After earning an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, she worked as a language development consultant with very young disabled children.

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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 twenty 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 cat, Sagwa, and their dog, Mr. Zo. RealAudio Amy Tan Interview on "The Opposite of Fate" - WYNC Interview: A Date with Fate - Jay MacDonald / BookPage Relationship with mother helped Tan hone writing skills - Donna Longenecker / UB Reporter "All My Good Intentions" Chinese Mothers and their American Daughters in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club - Anna Blight Novelist lives dramatic struggle with Lyme disease - J.J. McCoy / Modesto Bee Excavating Memory, Reconstructing Legacy - Carol Cujec Interviews and Biographical Amy Tan Biography - Steven Barclay Agency Amy Tan Biography - Academy of Achievement Amy Tan Interview w/video clips - Academy of Achievement Amy Tan - Voices Fom the Gaps Tan Biography - Penguin Putnam An Interview with Amy Tan - MOSAIC Amy Tan Interview (12/1995) - Salon Amy Tan Interview (12/1995) - Gretchen Giles New York Times Interview by Sarah Lyall New York Times Interview by Mervyn Rothstein New York Times Interview by Julie Lew Amy Tan Biography in Dutch ... Amy Tan with her late mother, Daisy

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13. The SALON Interview: Amy Tan Search..Archives..Contact Us..Table Talk..Ad Info..Investors. " My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. So begins amy tan's third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses amy tan I don't feel the http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html

Click Here 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.

14. Academy Of Achievement: Amy Tan Profile amy tan BestSelling Novelist Inducted into the Academy in 1996. In 1988, amy tan was earning an excellent living writing speeches for business executives. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0pro-1

Amy Tan Best-Selling Novelist Inducted into the Academy in 1996 In 1988, Amy Tan was earning an excellent living writing speeches for business executives. She worked around the clock to meet the demands from her many high-priced clients, but she took no joy in the work, and felt frustrated and unfulfilled. In her mid-thirties, she took up writing fiction. A year later her first book, a collection of interrelated stories called The Joy Luck Club was an international best-seller, and Amy Tan's life was changed forever. Only 20 years ago, a list of well-known American authors would have included virtually no Asian-Americans. Today Amy Tan is one of America's most popular novelists. Her subsequent books, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses have been best-sellers, and the film of The Joy Luck Club was an unprecedented success. Although they are primarily concerned with the lives and concerns of Asian-American women, her stories have found an enthusiastic audience among Americans of all backgrounds, and have already been translated into 23 languages. Technical Questions Editorial Questions This page last revised on Feb 19, 1997 10:34 PDT

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A B C D ... Z TAN, AMY "Klub held og glæde" ("The Joy Luck Club", 1989) Borgen, 1. udg. : 1990(1-2) Bogklubben 12 Bøger, 2. udg. : 1990(1) Borgen Paperbacks, 2.i.e.3. udg. : 1991(1), 1992(2), 1994(4-6), 1995(7-8), 1996(9), 1998(10) Borgen ; NDL (MagnaPrintSerien, 359), 2 bind : 1993 "Køkkengudens hustru : roman" ("The Kitchen God's Wife") Borgen, 1. udg. : 1992(1) Bogklubben 12 Bøger, 2. udg. : 1993(1) Borgen ; NDL (MagnaPrintSerien, 350), 4 bind : 1993 Borgen Paperbacks, 2.i.e.3. udg. : 1994(1-2), 1995(3), 1996(4) "Den kinesiske siameserkat" ("The Chinese Siamese Cat"), 32 sider, illustreret af Gretchen Schields Borgen, 1. udg. : 1994(1) "De hundrede hemmelige sanser : roman" ("The hundred secret senses") Borgen, 1. udg. : 1996(1-2) Borgen, 2. udg. : 1998(1) "Benbrudslægens datter : roman" ("The bonesetter's daughter"), oversat af Asta Smith-Hansen, 369 sider Borgen, 1. udg. : 2001(1) Bogklubben, 1. bogklubudg. : 2002(1) Borgen paperback, 2. udg. : 2003(1) Kilder: Dansk Bogfortegnelse, 1976- Lavet af Per Kjær Fredborg, 16-12-1991 og senest opdateret/rettet d.

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17. Amy Tan Interview With Don Swaim A 1989 interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio. Available in RealAudio. http://wiredforbooks.org/amytan

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Amy Tan Author of The Bonesetter's Daughter The Hundred Secret Senses The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife , and Moon Lady , Amy Tan talks with Don Swaim about growing up as the child of immigrants, working with disabled children, participating in a writers' group, and "becoming Chinese" on her first visit to China in this 1989 interview. Listen to the Amy Tan interview with Don Swaim, 1989 (24 min. 36 sec.) Download Free RealPlayer or Search the RealPlayer Archives for a player that will work with older computers (note: version 5.0 or higher is required) For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio. Wired for Books home

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Amy Tan Best-Selling Novelist BIOGRAPHY b. February 19, 1952 Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California. Her family lived in several communities in Northern California before settling in Santa Clara. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Her father, John Tan, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who came to America to escape the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War. The harrowing early life of her mother, Daisy, inspired Amy Tan's novel The Kitchen God's Wife. In China, Daisy had divorced an abusive husband but lost custody of her three daughters. She was forced to leave them behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy and her two brothers. Tragedy struck the Tan family when Amy's father and oldest brother both died of brain tumors within a year of each other. Mrs. Tan moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant conflict. Mother and daughter did not speak for six months after Amy Tan left the Baptist college her mother had selected for her to follow her boyfriend to San Jose City College. Tan further defied her mother by abandoning the pre-med course her mother had urged to pursue the study of English and linguistics. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in these fields at San Jose State University. In 1974, she and her boyfriend, Louis DeMattei were married. They were later to settle in San Francisco.

20. LESELUST - Amy Tan - Das Tuschezeichen *** Schmöker - Lesen - Rezensionen*** Zwischen China und den USA liegt die Vergangenheit der Frauenfiguren, von denen amy tan erz¤hlt ein packender Schm¶ker, rezensiert von Daniela Ecker in der Leselust . http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/tan_amy_tuschezeichen.htm

LESELUST eigene Meinung schreiben Amy Tan - Das Tuschezeichen Roman. Goldmann, 446 Seiten, ISBN: 3442304555 Ersch. 2001 unter dem Titel "The Bonesetters Daughter" Aus dem Amerikanischen August 2001 von Elke Link Die Autorin: Amy Tan wurde 1952 als Tochter chinesischer Auswanderer in Oakland, Kalifornien, geboren. Ihr Vater und ihr Bruder starben, als sie fünfzehn Jahre alt war. Ihre Mutter, Tochter einer wohlhabenden Familie in Shanghai, musste drei Töchter aus erster Ehe in China zurücklassen. Mittlerweile gehört Amy Tan zu den erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Schriftstellerinnen. Amy Tan lebt heute mit ihrem Mann in San Francisco und New York. Weitere Titel: Die Frau des Feuergottes / Töchter des Himmels / Das Tuschezeichen Als Ruth Young in der Wohnung ihrer Mutter für Ordnung sorgen will, entdeckt sie ein Päckchen eng mit chinesischen Schriftzeichen bedeckter Blätter und erinnert sich daran, von ihr auch schon vorher einmal ein paar Seiten zum Lesen erhalten zu haben. Ruths Mutter leidet, das wird immer klarer, an immer stärkerer Vergesslichkeit, schafft es nicht mehr, ihr Leben alleine zu organisieren. Und auch wenn Ruth derzeit das Gefühl hat, ihr eigenes Leben schon nicht mehr in den Griff zu bekommen, beschließt sie doch, sich um ihre Mutter zu kümmern. Und die gefundenen Seiten übersetzen zu lassen, denn selber hat sie, was sie nun bedauert, nicht genug chinesisch gelernt, um es selbst lesen zu können.

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