Her more recent novels include The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), Saving Fish From Drowning (2005) and The Valley of Amazement (2013). Tan's other two books, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) and The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), have also appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and in 1993, it was made into a major motion picture for which Tan co-wrote the screenplay. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Published in 1989, the book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese American daughters and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. In 1985, she wrote the story 'Rules of the Game' for a writing workshop, which formed the early foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. 'The Joy Luck Club'Īfter college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer.

She returned to the United States for college, attending Linfield College in Oregon, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of California at Berkeley. Tan grew up in Northern California, but when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. In 1985, she wrote the story 'Rules of the Game,' which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer and novelist.

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