谭恩美
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谭恩美（英文名：Amy Tan，1952年2月19日—），出生于美国加利福尼亚州的奥克兰。华裔美国作家，以畅销小说《喜福会》（The Joy Luck Club）著名。擅长描写亚裔美国人的生活和他们所面临的文化冲突。
She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent book, Saving Fish From Drowning, explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. In addition, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994). She has appeared in a short spot on PBS encouraging children to write.
Born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John (a Baptist minister) and Daisy (a Shanghai nurse), Tan was fourteen when her father and elder brother died of brain tumours. With her mother and younger brother Peter, Tan moved to Montreux, Switzerland shortly afterward. As a teenager, Tan experienced many cross-cultural conflicts with her mother. One incident involved her mother setting up a police sting that netted Tan's boyfriend, a suspected drug dealer.
Tan received a master's degree in linguistics at San José State University. Her first job was as a children's speech therapist.
Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide. Tan believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression. In 1985, after her psychiatrist fell asleep for the third time during one of their sessions, Tan quit therapy and took up fiction writing instead.[來源請求] Tan has also suffered from neurological Lyme disease since 1999, a struggle she has chronicled on her website[1] and in interviews with the media[2]. She has become an outspoken advocate on behalf of patients with the disease.
Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the literary garage band Rock Bottom Remainders with Dave Barry and Stephen King, who dedicated his non-fiction book On Writing to her. Along with King, she appeared in an episode of The Simpsons called "Insane Clown Poppy".
She has been married to Louis DeMattei since 1974. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their pets.
