| LC control no. | n 88021941 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3570.A48 |
| Personal name heading | Tan, Amy |
| Variant(s) | Tan, Eimi Tan, Enmei טאן, אמי 谭恩美 |
| See also | Corporate body: Rock Bottom Remainders (Musical group) |
| Other standard no. | Q234989 110768273 73671c52-02f7-46b9-970b-88122367a1d8 0000000122380225 235370 738666 nm0848819 p166976 213/000025138 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Sausalito (Calif.) San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1952-02-19 |
| Place of birth | Oakland (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Novels Picture books Children's stories |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists Screenwriters Librettists |
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| Found in | Her The Joy Luck Club, c1989: CIP t.p. (Amy Tan) Watashi wa umareru mishiranu daichi de, 2000: t.p. (Eimi Tan) Jie gu shi de nü er, 2002: t.p. (Tan Enmei; Amy Tan [in rom.]) Penguin Putnam's website, July 30, 2004 (Tan, Amy; born in Oakland, CA in 1952; BA/MA in Linguistics, San Jose State U.; has written 2 children's books: The moon lady, 1992/The Chinese Siamese cat, 1994; the latter title is now a PBS KIDS TV series & part of a symphony program produced/conducted by George Daughtery) Wikipedia, Jan. 10, 2014 (Amy Tan, born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California; an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships; lives in Sausalito, California with her husband) Amy Tan, the official website, March 2, 2020: home page (Amy Tan; author of The Valley of Amazement, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and the librettist for the opera The Bonesetter's Daughter) about (born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area; attended five colleges: Linfield College, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.A. with a double major in English and Linguistics, followed by her M.A. in Linguistics; author of a memoir, The Opposite of Fate) <http://www.amytan.net/home.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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