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Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is ''The Joy Luck Club'', which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film. Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including ''The Kitchen God's Wife'', ''The Hundred Secret Senses'', ''The Bonesetter's Daughter'', ''Saving Fish from Drowning'' and ''The Valley of Amazement''. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled ''The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.'' In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: ''The Moon Lady'' (1992) and ''Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat'' (1994), which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. ==Personal life== Tan was born in Oakland, California. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants Daisy (née Li) and John Tan, an electrical engineer and Baptist minister. When Tan was 15 years old, her older brother Peter and father both died of brain tumors within eight months of each other. Daisy moved Amy and her younger brother John Jr. to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school〔"The Archives of my Personality", address to American Association of Museums General Session (Los Angeles), May 26, 2010〕 at the Institut Monte Rosa, Montreux. During this period in her life, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, of their four children (a son who died as a toddler and three daughters), and how her mother was forced to leave her children from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident was the basis for Tan's first novel, 1989 ''New York Times'' bestseller ''The Joy Luck Club''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Amy Tan Biography )〕 In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy met her three half-sisters. Tan began her college days at Linfield College in Oregon before transferring to San José State University in California because she had fallen in love with Lou DeMattei, an Italian American, who she met on blind date and married in 1974.〔 Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. While in school, she worked odd jobs—switchboard operator, carhop, bartender, and pizza maker—before starting a writing career. As a freelance business writer, she worked on projects for AT&T, IBM, Bank of America, and Pacific Bell.〔 In 1998 Tan contracted Lyme disease, which went misdiagnosed for a few years. As a result, she suffers complications like epileptic seizures. Tan co-founded LymeAid 4 Kids, which helps uninsured children pay for treatment. She wrote about her life with Lyme disease in ''The New York Times''. She resides in Sausalito, California, with her tax attorney husband in a house they designed "to feel open and airy, like a tree house, but also to be a place where we could live comfortably into old age" with accessibility features. Tan is also in a band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, with several other prominent writers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amy Tan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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