Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She...
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The Joy Luck Club (film) (category Amy Tan)
1989 novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film was produced by Bass, Tan, Wang, and Patrick Markey, while...
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Amy Tan (譚恩美, born 1952), American writer Lewis Tan (譚恩美, born 1987), English actor Meryem Tan (born 1999), Turkish wheelchair basketball player Tan Dun...
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Film Festival in October 2020. He was at work finishing a documentary on Amy Tan called Where The Past Begins. In 1988, Redford married Kyle Redford. They...
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The Joy Luck Club (novel) (category Novels by Amy Tan)
The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy...
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and by guest editor Amy Tan. Kennison, Katrina and Tan, Amy(editors), The Best American Short Stories 1999, New York, 1999. Amy Tan Steps Over the Dead...
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Fish Cheeks (category Works by Amy Tan)
Chinese-American author Amy Tan and her first published essay. The work was first published in Seventeen and covers a Christmas Eve dinner when Tan was 14 years...
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Rock Bottom Remainders (category Amy Tan)
charity from their concerts. Band members included Dave Barry, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Sam Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Joel Selvin, James McBride, Mitch...
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features guest stars Jay Mohr as Christopher Walken, Stephen King as himself, Amy Tan as herself, John Updike as himself and Joe Mantegna as recurring character...
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The Bonesetter's Daughter (category Novels by Amy Tan)
The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this book deals with the relationship between an American-born...
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West Virginia Amy Tan (born 1952), American writer Amy Tinkler (born 1999), British gymnast Amy Tong (born 1977), American judoka Amy Veness (1876–1960)...
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The Hundred Secret Senses (category Novels by Amy Tan)
Hundred Secret Senses is a bestselling 1995 novel by Chinese-American writer Amy Tan. It was published by Putnam, and was shortlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize...
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The Kitchen God's Wife (category Novels by Amy Tan)
author Amy Tan. First published in 1991, it deals extensively with Chinese-American female identity and draws on the story of her mother's life. Amy Tan was...
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include Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985), Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989), the Amy Tan literary adaptation The Joy Luck Club (1993), Chinese Box (1997), and A...
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The Chinese Siamese Cat (category Works by Amy Tan)
The Chinese Siamese Cat is a 1994 children's book by Amy Tan. It is about a mother siamese cat telling her kittens how they obtained their distinctive...
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Stranger than Fiction (compilation album) (category Amy Tan)
only many of the Remainders, such as bestselling authors Stephen King, Amy Tan, and Dave Barry, but also rock critics Dave Marsh, Ben Fong-Torres, and...
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The Valley of Amazement (category Novels by Amy Tan)
The Valley of Amazement is a novel by Amy Tan. Like many of her works, it deals with mother-daughter relationship and is partly set in historical China...
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actress Jane Fonda, comedian Carol Burnett, author Isabel Allende and author Amy Tan. Wiser Than Me was the single show named Apple's Best Podcast of the Year...
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the Rock Bottom Remainders, a charity supergroup whose members included Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Barry, Scott Turow, James McBride, Mitch Albom...
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Saving Fish from Drowning (category Novels by Amy Tan)
Saving Fish from Drowning is a 2005 novel written by Amy Tan. It is her fifth work. The book is about 12 American tourists who travel to China and Burma...
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of The World's Shortest Stories, the other in 2004 for her direction of Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate read by the author. In 2010, Garver was honored...
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events. The group included Stephen King, Dave Barry, Matt Groening and Amy Tan, among other popular writers; it has continued to perform one benefit concert...
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You're Strange. Jevon Phillips of Los Angeles Times called the episode "Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir", "Fantastic." "About the Series - American Masters"...
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Ryan, poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States, born in San Jose Amy Tan, best-selling novelist, author of The Joy Luck Club Louis Theroux, English...
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Booksellers Association convention, and has also included Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Barbara Kingsolver...
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whose other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Stephen King, Kathi Kamen...
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Stewart Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter, the latter with a libretto by Amy Tan based on her book of the same name. The role of Ruth was created for Cao...
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rock-and-roll band made up of published writers. Other band members included Amy Tan, Matt Groening, Dave Barry, and Stephen King, and they played for one week...
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Vijay Mallya, Indian liquor magnate Jason Roberts, author and technologist Amy Tan, author Chase Utley, Major League Baseball player Heath Ceramics, founded...
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Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (category Works by Amy Tan)
television series based on the children's book of the same name. created by Amy Tan which aired on PBS Kids, co-produced by Canada-based animation studio CinéGroupe...
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