The Kitchen God's Wife | Author Biography
Amy Tan was born in 1952 to first-generation Chinese- American parents. At her birth, Tan was given the Chinese name An-Mai, meaning “Blessing of America.” Her father, John, was an electrical engineer and a volunteer Baptist minister who came to America in 1947. Her mother, Daisy, was a medical technician who had fled China in 1949 to escape an unhappy arranged marriage, leaving three daughters behind. In 1967, Tan’s older brother, Peter, died of brain cancer, and, within a year, her father died of the same illness. After consulting a Chinese fortune teller, Daisy left the “evil”...
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