The first step for novices, Tan says, is simply to get outside and look around. You can start by taking note of the birds you encounter in your daily life, whether you reside in a city, suburb, or ...

She’s a novelist turned naturalist. New York Times best-selling author Amy Tan has turned her intense gaze to the world of birds and shared her private drawings and musings in a new book. Jeffrey ...

John Behrens. Courtesy of KPJR Films. “I’m a pretty normal person,” Amy Tan says, with a heaping mound of humility. The writer has published six novels, two children’s books, a memoir, and accumulated ...

Most birders have origin stories, the tales they tell of how birds, for whatever reason, moved from background to foreground in their lives. Novelist Amy Tan’s journey, cataloged in her delightful new ...

Author Amy Tan on her latest – family history and the courtesan life of Old Shanghai. Author Amy Tan. Her newest novel, out this month, is "The Valley Of Amazement." (Rick Smolan) Novelist Amy Tan ...

The 2024-25 Season of Portland Arts and Lectures is our 40th, and as part of the season we wanted to bring back one writer from the very early days of the series to celebrate the long arc of the ...

Amy Tan was 200 pages into a new novel when she attended a large exhibition on Shanghai life in the early 1900s. While there, she bought a book she thought might help her as she researched details on ...

Amy Tan grew up all around the Bay Area where her Chinese American family was part of a group of friends they called "The Joy Luck Club." In 1989, Amy published a book of stories by that name, which ...

LOS ANGELES, May 3 (UPI) --Author Amy Tan, whose books The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife were inspired by her life and her mother's, said writing brought her closer to her mom. The ...

Amy Tan was shocked and baffled when she came across a picture of young women voted “The Ten Beauties of Shanghai in 1910.” “They were courtesans and five were wearing costumes identical to what my ...

Amy Tan’s first job was “making up” astrology for her friend’s astrology hotline business. She later wrote ad copy, direct mail, and became a technical writer for a telecommunications company: “all ...