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I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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