Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Website EvaluatorsChris Huber - On leave, Missouri
Joyce Walker - Rock Lake Middle School, Florida
Website Reviewer and Compiler Charles R. Sanders - San Pedro High School, California Site Ratings
1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent Anniina's Amy Tan Page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/ This collection of links is "an excellent place to begin research on Amy Tan." Visitors will find interviews, biographies, book reviews, a bibliography, and
an "enlightening" photo of Amy Tan with her mother. One interesting interview emphasizes the biographical aspects of The Joy Luck Club.
Also available are video and audio clips from interviews. Detailed synopses of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Hundred Secret Sins
are provided, as is the address of Tan's agent "for those who want to contact this remarkable writer."
Overall Rating: 4Academy of Achievement: Amy Tan
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0int-1 The Academy of Achievement focuses on individuals who have shaped the 20th
century by their accomplishments. The academy's goal is to motivate and educate with these inspiring role models, one of whom is Amy Tan. This site contains "an excellent short biography" and "an extremely readable interview" wherein the author discusses her childhood, family and career. Throughout the interview are sprinkled links to photographs and audio and video clips of Tan. The "wisdom and insight" of this candid interview "draw you right in."
Overall Rating: 3Voices from the Gaps: Amy Tan
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AmyTan.html Voices from the Gaps focuses on the lives and
woks of women of color. This site features writer Amy Tan. Included here is a fine biography, a bibliography, and links to several articles about Tan. Although the biography emphasizes
The Joy Luck Club, it does present an "excellent overview" of the author, placing her "within the context of a movement of Asian-American writers, including Maxine Hong Kingston." This site "should provide
helpful research material."
Overall Rating: 31st Person: Amy Tan
http://www.sunherald.com/1ptan/html/1.htm This site invites the reader "to get to know the fairy-tale success story of novelist Amy Tan." The personal section acquaints one with Tan's family, education and
tragedies, and the professional section presents a time-line of her writing career. These are followed by a few items of trivia and some candid quotes on a variety of topics. Finally, the reader may take a
quiz on the above material.
Overall Rating: 2 |
