Biography of Amy Tan In 1985, Amy Tan wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters.Tan is considered a great author because It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages. CHILDHOOD Tan born on february 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. She live in San Francisco and New York, she is still alive. From childhood, had a close acquaintance with death and trauma. It has left her with an abiding sense of danger but also, she tells Maya Jaggi, a sense that benign presences are helping her to write. The result has been a series of novels with enormous popular appeal. INFLUENCES AND/OR PROBLEMS …show more content…
The greatest influence on her is his mom.Tan quit and decided to cut back her working hours by jumping into jazz piano lessons and writing fiction instead. Tan's first literary efforts were stories, one of which secured her a position in the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, a fiction writers' workshop. One problem that she had contracted Lyme disease, which caused severe memory loss. During one season was unable to follow a conversation or write. Tan solve that problem with the medical treatment of the same one has allowed him to recover and to make practically normal life, although it has left him some chronic