Tan, Amy (1952– )

US writer. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), told the story of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters, and was an international best-seller. She was also the screenwriter and producer of the film of The Joy Luck Club (1993). In 2001 she published the novel The Bonesetter's Daughter.

Tan was born in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrant parents. She worked as a freelance business writer in the 1980s. Her other books include the novels The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), inspired by her mother's life in China before the communist revolution; and The Hundred Secret Senses (1993); and the children's books The Moon Lady (1992), and The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994).