Amy tan

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 30s, she took up writing fiction. A year later her first book, a collection of interrelated stories called The Joy Luck Club was an international bestseller, and Amy Tan's life was changed forever. Her subsequent books, The Kitchen God's Wife…

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Read a list of author Amy Tan's ten favorite books, including work by Mary Karr, Salman Rushdie, and Gabriel García Márquez.

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Amy Tan—the award-winning author of The Joy Luck Club—teaches you how to write fiction using emotional memory to maximize creativity and authenticity in your story.

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Read 2,719 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Winnie and Helen have kept each others worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, bec…

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California in 1952, two and a half years after her parents emigrated to the US. Though her parents hoped she would become a neurosurgeon by trade and a concert pianist by hobby, instead she became an administrator of programmes...

Amy Tan is sitting in a ghost chair. At least, that’s what her assistant says they’re...

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