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FORA.tv Speaker - Amy Tan

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Biography

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa."

Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund.

4 Programs

Amy Tan and Stewart Wallace: The Bonesetter's Daughter

09.15.08 | 00:10:40 min | 1,975 views | 1 comment

On Writing: Amy Tan in Conversation with Roger Rosenblatt

07.10.08 | 01:16:23 min | 8,344 views | 0 comments

Saving Fish From Drowning

11.07.06 | 01:04:14 min | 4,872 views | 0 comments

BGE: Book Club from Hell

06.18.06 | 00:34:42 min | 1,101 views | 2 comments