Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She is also known for other novels, short story collections, children’s books, and memoirs.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)
The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001)
Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)
The Valley of Amazement (2013)
Children’s books
The Moon Lady, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1992)
The Chinese Siamese Cat, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1994)
Maris Claussen and the yapper of eternity, illustrated by Gretech Shields (1998)
Nonfiction
Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Chords and an Attitude (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver) (1994)
Mother (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (Editor, with Katrina Kenison) (1999)
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003)
Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever, (of Authors) Tells All (with Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Roy Blount Jr., Matt Groening, Ted Habte-Gabr, Greg Iles, Stephen King, James McBride, Roger McGuinn, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow), an interactive ebook about her participation in a writer/musician band, the Rock Bottom Remainders (Coliloquy, 2013)
Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir (HarperCollins, 2017)
The Backyard Bird Chronicles, written and illustrated by Tan (Knopf, 2024,)
Oak Lawn Library Friends 