“The teachers told me, next time, you should be more careful.”
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Amy Tan
Amy Ruth Tan is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.
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culture · American novelist (born 1952) · writer · novelist · essayist · screenwriter · children's writer · also Amy Tan, Amy Ruth Tan, Tan
Born 19 February 1952 · Q234989
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2026· 2 entries
“I am full of contradictions. ... I am full of wavering questions.”
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Amy Tan shares her best birding tips
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KPBS: Amy Tan finds obsession, connection and endless curiosity in birding
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The Daily Californian: Amy Tan’s ‘Backyard Birds’ on Display at Bancroft Library
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2024· 6 entries
PBS: Amy Tan turns her literary gaze on the world of birds
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The Boston Globe: Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. ‘Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.’
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Asia Society: Amy Tan: 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles'
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New Hampshire Public Radio: Amy Tan's bird obsession led to a new book — and keeping mealworms in her fridge
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Yahoo: Amy Tan journeys from novelist to naturalist without leaving her backyard
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Tan published The Backyard Bird Chronicles, her illustrated account of birding as a coping mechanism during the divisive 2016 US Presidential election
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2021· 2 entries
Won National Humanities Medal (2021).
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Tan was presented the National Humanities Medal for her contribution to expanding the American literary canon, and in the same year won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2011).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (2006).
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1999· 1 entry
At the age of 83; she had Alzheimer's disease
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1998· 1 entry
Tan believes she developed chronic Lyme disease, a condition unrecognized by medical science, in 1998.
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1996· 1 entry
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1993· 1 entry
Tan and her husband may have been the first ski school clients ever to learn to carve on modern, shaped skis
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1992· 8 entries
“I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read — which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I’m told my books are on required reading lists.”
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“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
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“Jako że nie mamy dzieci, po mojej śmierci cała moja fortuna pójdzie na cele charytatywne (…). Ale nie na wielkie budynki nazwane moim imieniem, tylko np. na dzieci w chińskich sierocińcach. Nie zależy mi na pustej sławie teraz ani po śmierci.”
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“Pisarz pisze i ten proces – nie sława czy fortuna – jest najważniejszy.”
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“„Simpsonowie” to nie tylko rozrywka, ale też ważne, wywrotowe pytania. Groening mówi w tym animowanym serialu rzeczy, o których na co dzień w Ameryce nie dyskutujemy.”
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“Świat jest pełen dobrych chęci: ratowania dzieci, krajów, przyrody. Ale co zrobić, gdy nasze dobre intencje nie mają dobrych konsekwencji, gdy pędzimy gdzieś kogoś ratować, a w rezultacie krzywdzimy, gdy zamiast ocalać ludzkie istnienia, zabijamy, jak to miało miejsce przy okazji amerykańskiej interwencji w Iraku?”
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“W pisaniu korzystam z pamięci dziecka. Niczego z góry nie zakładam, więc mój świat jest wciąż pełen magii i wszystko może się w nim zdarzyć.”
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“Wyobraźnia karmi się wspomnieniami, a w mojej aż się roi od koszmarów.”
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1987· 1 entry
Amy traveled with Daisy to China, where she met her three half-sisters
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1985· 1 entry
Tan began writing her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, while working as a business writer
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-02-19.
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