Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 55
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
- Prentice Hall Literature
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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Film & TV
Writing · Oakland, California, USA
Known for
- M on the Bund — Self2024
- Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir — Self2021
- The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin — Self2017
- Brainwave2011
- Hollywood Chinese — Self2007
- The Joy Luck Club — Party Guest (uncredited)1993
- The Rock Bottom Remainders — Self1992
- The Simpsons — Amy Tan (voice)1989
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 796
- Total plays
- 3,844
Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Enmei; Cantonese Yale: Taam Yanmei; born February 19, 1952) is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages. Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning. <a hr
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
- A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
· 2020 · cited 22,024x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
· 1997 · cited 19,798x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
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Key dates
- Born
- 19 February 1952
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Amy
- Family name
- Tan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Languages spoken
- Mandarin
- Religion
- Baptists
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Connections
Categories
1952 births20th-century American novelists20th-century American women novelists20th-century Baptists21st-century American essayists21st-century American novelists21st-century American women novelists21st-century BaptistsAmerican children's writersAmerican Christian writersAmerican novelists of Chinese descentAmerican people of Chinese descent