If lived experiences inform a writer’s best work, then Amy Tan has a deep reservoir ... prompting her mother to take Tan and her younger brother John Jr. to travel Europe before Tan graduated ...

Ming-Na Wen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita and Lauren Tom reflect on the film that changed their lives — and history.

Author Amy Tan published The Joy Luck Club in 1989 ... different moments that we never would have appreciated when we were younger. And I think the birds came into my life at the right time.

She broke out her sketchbook — she’s found drawing a relaxing pastime since she was a young girl, as she details in the 2021 documentary on her life, “Unintended Memoir.” Soon Tan dove ...

Novelist Amy Tan has always turned to her own family for writing inspiration. "The Joy Luck Club," one of her most famous books, has autobiographical elements. Now, she has some fascinating new ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Bay Area literary icon Amy Tan has an archive so large it fills over 60 boxes. It’s a collection that’s ...

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, might seem like a deviation.

Amy Tan, the author of “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” and other popular novels, often writes her fiction from a table overlooking the patio of her Sausalito ...