She serves on the board of American Bird Conservancy. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and recently received the National Humanities Medal. She is featured in the American Masters documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. Tan is an instructor with MasterClass on writing, memory and imagination. She is also the co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of The Joy Luck, the librettist of the opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and the creative consultant to the PBS animated series Sagwa the Chinese Chinese Cat. Her two children’s books are The Chinese Siamese Cat and The Moon Lady. She is the author of two memoirs, The Opposite of Fate and Where the Past Begins. Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美 pinyin: Tán Ēnměi born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose novels include The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish From Drowing, and The Valley of Amazement.
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