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Amy (Ruth) Tan Biography

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Name: Amy Tan
Birth Date: February 19, 1952
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Amy (Ruth) Tan

On the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), Amy Tan became an instant star in the publishing world; and her second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), was a triumph as well. Tan's skillful renditions of mother-daughter relationships reach the hearts of millions of readers. Moreover, her work--which comes more than a dozen years after Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976)--has helped to create a renaissance of Chinese American writing. Tan's books also include two children's books and a third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses (1995).

Amy Tan's roots are in a sorrowful family history and painful personal traumas. Her father, John Tan, immigrated to the United States in 1947. He worked as an engineer and served as a Baptist minister. Amy's mother, Daisy, came to the United States in 1949, leaving behind three daughters from a previous marriage. When Amy was born in Oakland, California, her parents chose the Chinese name En-Mai, meaning Blessing of America.

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    Pin-chia Feng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. Amy (Ruth) Tan from Dictionary of Literary Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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