Sitting quietly in her garden one morning in 2017, the American author Amy Tan had an up-close encounter with an Anna’s ...

BOOK REVIEW Amy Tan, author of ‘The Joy Luck Club,’ logs her obsession with birds in a new avian book of days ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ is a lively, unexpectedly moving account of the ...

It's a pleasure to sit with Amy Tan as she sketches and watches her way to an obsession about the birds in her Marin County backyard.

Amy Tan has joined the millions of American “birders,” and shares her journey and discoveries in her latest book.

In The Backyard Bird Chronicles, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birdwatching and the natural wonders of the world.

Yet Tan never intended for these private musings, quotidian observations and representational drawings of her backyard birds to become a book — that was the idea of her longtime editor Dan Halpern.

Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird ...

Amy Tan hopes ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ makes you a conservationist The 'Joy Luck Club' author will be making two Southern California appearances in Santa Monica and Laguna Beach.

Amy Tan, the critically acclaimed author of “The Joy Luck Club” and other works, will discuss her new book “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” at two Southern California venues on May 20 and 21 ...