Author

Books by Amy Tan

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She worked as a business writer before turning to fiction. The Joy Luck Club, her debut novel published in 1989, spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her subsequent novels include The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter. She is also the author of a memoir, The Opposite of Fate, and has written children's books. Tan is among the most widely read Chinese-American authors of the twentieth century.