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	Amy Tan Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		Amy Tan: I was told what I was supposed to do when I was growing up, so I don't think I ever had a chance to think about what I really wanted to do.
		Amy Tan: I did some writing in class when I was young just as everybody did.
		Amy Tan: Boy, that is such a tough one.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/tan0int-1 (1354 words)

	Amy Tan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tan was fourteen when their father and elder brother died of brain tumours.
		Tan believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression.
		Tan has suffered from neurological Lyme disease since 1999, a struggle she has chronicled on her website[2] and in interviews with the media[3].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amy_Tan (527 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tan's father and brother died of brain tumors when she was fourteen years old.
		Tan has said that her intention in writing is not to provide historical information, but rather to create a work of art.
		Amy Tan spoke of ghosts haunting her memory and her work when she was an invited speaker at Castilleja School.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_tan.html (512 words)

	Amy Tan Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Amy Tan (born 1952) is known for her lyrically written tales of emotional conflict between Chinese-American mothers and daughters separated by generational and cultural differences.
		While still in her teens, Tan experienced the loss of both her father and her sixteen-year-old brother to brain tumors and learned that two sisters from her mother's first marriage in China were still alive (one of several autobiographical elements she would later incorporate into her fiction).
		Tan majored in English at San Jose State in the early 1970s rather than fulfill her mother's expectations of becoming a neurosurgeon, and after graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she began a career as a technical writer.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/amy-tan (1415 words)

	BookPage Interview November 2003: Amy Tan
		Amy Tan had fervidly hoped to publish her fifth novel this fall, but fate would not allow it.
		Tan, who exploded onto the world literary stage with The Joy Luck Club in 1989, had just returned from a four-month worldwide tour in June 2001 promoting her fourth best-selling novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, when she knew something was very, very wrong.
		Tan doesn't blame her illness on fate, despite her mother's daily warnings of a curse on the family, but she does allow that such a curse did exist "because my mother strongly believed in it and she passed it on to my brother and me."
	www.bookpage.com /0311bp/amy_tan.html (903 words)

	Lyme Disease in Canada, Amy Tan
		Tan's case dramatizes the growing, increasingly acrimonious division in the medical community over the proper treatment and diagnosis of Lyme disease, an illness caused by a bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, that enters the body via the bite of a deer tick.
		Tan didn't realize how tiny the tick could be -- about the size of the period at the end of this sentence -- and her rash never fit the standard description.
		Tan says she is "not terribly angry with any of my doctors" for having missed her diagnosis, though the roster included her primary care physician, an endocrinologist, a sleep-disorder specialist, two neurologists, a cardiologist and an orthopedic surgeon.
	www.canlyme.com /amy.html (2653 words)

	TIME Pacific \| The Joys and Sorrows of Amy Tan \| March 5, 2001 \| NO. 9
		Realizing that Daisy Tan's memory was fading, her daughter planned a fictional meditation on "the things we remember and the things that should be remembered." The work sputtered on and off for four years until her mother's death late in 1999, after which Tan finished it in six months.
		For all Tan's remark-able ability to inhabit imaginatively other places and times, to render the feel of manufacturing ink sticks in the 1920s or running from the invading Japanese in the 1930s, LuLing's closing words are, the author says, a close transcription of something her own mother, late in life, said to her.
		Tan's trademark song, which she performs in dominatrix gear, is a version of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20010305/amytan.html (1441 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Tan, Amy
		Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in California.
		Tan became a published author at the age of eight when she wrote an essay on the public library that was published in a local paper.
		Amy Tan is part of a movement of Asian-American writers that includes Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior) and Wakako Yamauchi (Songs My Mother Taught Me).
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html (786 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Amy Tan
		When Tan had completed three stories, her agent submitted them, along with a proposal for a collection, which was bought by editor FAITH SALE at G.P. Putnam's Sons.
		Find out what the pressure was like for Amy when she sat down to write her second book, if that kind of pressure ever really goes away, who her saving grace is when writing gets extra tough, and what she is working on now.
		Amy Tan is an extraordinary writer who skillfully reproduces the powerful and at times eruptive relationships between mothers, daughters, and siblings in her works of literature.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-tan-amy.asp (9679 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Opposite of Fate: Books: Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amy Tan begins The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, a collection of essays that spans her literary career, on a humorous note; she is troubled that her life and novels have become the subject of a "Cliff’s Notes" abridgement.
		Tan's bestselling works of fiction are, in part, based on her own family history, and this robust book, her first nonfiction effort, explains much about where those stories came from and how they influenced her.
		Amy has an academic background, yet is down to earth with language for the common man and a sense of humor that is refreshing.
	www.amazon.ca /Opposite-Fate-Amy-Tan/dp/1593550782 (2136 words)

	Amy Tan
		When Amy's father and oldest brother died of brain tumors within a year of each other, Daisy moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, although mother and daughter were constantly squabbling.
		Tan abandoned the pre-med course her mother had wanted her to pursue in exchange for English and linguistics classes.
		As Tan was beginning her new career, her mother grew seriously ill. Tan promised herself that if she recovered, she would take her mother to China to see the daughter who had been left behind almost forty years before.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-021905-tan.html (1069 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bonesetter's Daughter: Books: Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tan's empathetic insight into the complex relationship of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters is again displayed in her latest extraordinary, multi-layered tale.
		Amy Tan does a superb job of presenting these separate yet connected narratives into a masterpiece of a book, blending character, dialogue, and narrative seemlessly (and seemingly effortlessly) together.
		Have read most of Amy Tan's books and though there is some similarity in them all, like the China born mother and America born daughter, their relationship,their past and present lives, I found this book by far the best.
	www.amazon.com /Bonesetters-Daughter-Amy-Tan/dp/0804114986 (2207 words)

	Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan: Reviews
		Tan seems to be having fun with it, indulging in the wry, witty voice of Bibi while still exploring her signature questions of fate, connection, identity and family.
		Tan's warm-hearted humour and characteristically kooky characters serve to keep the reader hooked, while her clear-eyed questioning undercuts a tendency toward whimsical sentimentality.
		Tan has admirably tackled the unique challenge of building a novel based on a real-life incident and turning the resulting tale into a commentary on the ironies of modern life.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/tanamy/savingfishfromdrowning (1082 words)

	Amy Tan Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Tan moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant conflict.
		Tan further defied her mother by abandoning the pre-med course her mother had urged to pursue the study of English and linguistics.
		Just as she was embarking on this new career, Tan's mother fell ill. Amy Tan promised herself that if her mother recovered, she would take her to China, to see the daughter who had been left behind almost forty years before.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/tan0bio-1 (904 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Amy Tan
		The deaths, which came at the end of 1999, marked the climax of a period Tan spent shuttling back and forth between her home in San Francisco and an apartment in New York, between her dying mother and her dying editor.
		For Tan, who turns 50 next February, writing is a form of meditation, a kind of therapy, a way to focus on questions she wants to ask herself: "I've found that I cannot write as a reactionary writer, trying to respond to opinions of people, either real and current or imagined and anticipated," she says.
		Tan won't discuss the book she's working on in hotel rooms and airplanes as she tours the country reading to eager audiences from The Bonesetter's Daughter.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.05.01/tan-0114.html (1125 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Amy Tan
		The first time Amy Tan--The New York Times best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Hundred Secret Senses--learned her mother's real name as well as that of her grandmother was on the day she died.
		Tan was stunned when she realized she had not known her own mother's birth name.
		Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/AmyTaneBooks.htm (475 words)

	Amy Tan (b. 1952) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amy Tan's work is greatly indebted to and inspired by that of Maxine Hong Kingston, particularly to Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior.
		Thus, it would be useful to read these two authors back-to-back as well as to compare Tan with other bicultural women writers who found their voices in the wake of the civil rights and women's liberation movements.
		In Tan's novels, the mothers have immigrated from China to the United States for the express purpose of providing their daughters with greater opportunities.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/tan.html (419 words)

	Amy Tan - Authors - A.S.T.A.L.@R.I.C.
		Tan was born to Chinese immigrant parents in Oakland, California.
		As she grew up Amy finally heard her mother’s life story which was the basis for one of her books, The Kitchen God’s Wife.
		Amy’s family moved frequently which she says was the reason for her vivid imagination.
	www.ric.edu /astal/authors/amytan.html (1785 words)

	"Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records Artist Amy Tan
		Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952.
		Tan attended five colleges: Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where she met her husband, Lou DeMattei; San Jose City College; San Jose State University, from which she received a B.A. with a double major in English and Linguistics; University of California/Santa Cruz; and University of California/Berkeley.
		Tan has been a resident at the Yaddo Colony, is a board member of PEN American Center, and lives in San Francisco and New York.
	www.dqydj.com /tan.htm (633 words)

	MetroActive \| Sonoma Independent \| Amy Tan
		But Tan is taking her punishment gamely, traveling coast to coast on press junkets and readings.
		Tan has said in print that The Joy Luck Club was written for her mother.
		While Tan owes her success as a writer in great part to being able to lovingly lift the rice curtain and allow rare glimpses of Chinese life and culture, she assents that it is her gift as a storyteller that has given longevity to her career.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.14.95/tan-9550.html (1513 words)

	Amazon.fr : Saving Fish From Drowning: Livres en anglais: Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amy Tan, who has an unerring eye for relationships between mothers and daughters, especially Chinese-American, has departed from her well-known genre in Saving Fish From Drowning.
		Tan's travelers, who range from a neurotic hypochondriac to the debonair, self-involved host of a show called The Fido Files, fight and flirt among themselves.
		It's based on a true story, and Tan seems to be having fun with it, indulging in the wry, witty voice of Bibi while still exploring her signature questions of fate, connection, identity and family.
	www.amazon.fr /Saving-Fish-Drowning-Amy-Tan/dp/0399153012 (901 words)

	Anniina's Amy Tan Page
		Amy Tan was born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California.
		Amy Tan enjoys hiking, which is probably how she contracted Lyme disease in 1999.
		For a long time, it was debilitating, hindering her ability to write, and to tour with the literary garage band, Rock Bottom Remainders, of which she is a key member, belting out rock tunes in daring costumes, alongside other American writers, such as Stephen King and Dave Barry.
	www.luminarium.org /contemporary/amytan (909 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Amy Tan
		Amy Tan is first and foremost an American writer.
		Yet, to telescope Amy Tan's work into some sort of Chinese-American goodwill ambassadorship is to do her an injustice.
		By exposing the palates of mainstream readers to another culture, Amy Tan has undoubtedly opened minds through fiction, and in the process she has created art.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-tan-amy-2.asp (3465 words)

	Writer Amy Tan Visits Krakow - "Krakow, Poland" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amy Tan discussed her identity as a ‘Chinese-American” writer and talked about her childhood growing up in the United States as the daughter of Chinese immigrants.
		Amy Tan also spoke about her works at a public book signing at the Jaszczury Students’ Club on the Main Market Square in Krakow.
		Tan described the process of writing her most recent novel, “Saving Fish from Drowning”, which was recently translated into Polish.
	krakow.usconsulate.gov /krakow/Amy_Tan.html (239 words)

	Lesson 9: Amy Tan, Contemporary Novelist
		Born February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California, An-mei Tan was one of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan.
		Amy Tan was immersed into Chinese culture, an experience that would later infuse her novels” (290).
		Tan also explores mother-daughter relationships in her novel, which recounts not only Ruth’s interactions with her mother, but also her mother’s relationship with her own mother.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/lit/amnovel/fall2002/10tan.htm (993 words)

	'The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings' by Amy Tan
		Tan shares the back story to her fictional stories, explaining where they came from and how they influenced her writings.
		Along the way, Tan relates the tale of her parents' fateful marriage, her unusual childhood, her restless mother's search for happiness -- and cleanliness-- that led Tan to change schools a dozen times across California and then Europe.
		And not to make light of Lyme disease, but Tan's minute-by-minute retellings of doctor visits and her eventual diagnosis is more akin to the droning of an ever-ailing grandparent than the confidences of the compelling writer we know Tan to be.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20031214amytan1214fnp6.asp (440 words)

	Amy Tan Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com
		In the late 1960s her father and one of her two brothers died of brain tumors and Tan's mother moved the family to Europe.
		After finishing high school in Switzerland in 1969, Tan returned to the United States and eventually ended up in California again, where she studied literature and linguistics at San Jose State University and earned a masters degree in 1973.
		The Bonesetter's Daughter - The Bonesetter's Daughter Author: Amy Tan Publisher: Putnam In her fourth novel author Amy Tam...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/amytan.html (318 words)

	Fiction: Amy Tan
		This site includes a detailed biography of Tan; information on Tan's performance in the Rock Bottom Remainders rock group with Dave Barry; photos of the author; links to interviews and essays by and about the author; and reviews of her work.
		Born to Chinese immigrants in Oakland, California, Tan remembers that as a child she felt like an American girl trapped in a Chinese body: "There was shame and self-hate.
		One of them was published in a little magazine read by a literary agent in San Diego, who urged Tan to outline a book about the conflicts between different cultures and generations of Chinese mothers and daughters in America.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/tan.htm (311 words)

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