Malibu City Hall is located at 23825 Stuart Ra nch Road\, Malibu.
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;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Ma libu Library:geo:34.0356417,-118.6922353 GEO:34.0356417;-118.6922353 DESCRIPTION:The Malibu Library Speaker Series presents bestselling author Amy Tan at Malibu City Hall..\nhttps://lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/1 4795101 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Malibu Library Speaker Series presents Amy Tan at Malibu City Hall on Wednesday\, November 19\, at 7 pm.
\nBorn in the U.S. to immigrant parents from China\, Amy Tan rejected her m other&rsquo\;s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She chose to write fiction instead. Her novels are The Joy Luck Club\, The Kitchen God&rsquo\;s Wife\, The Hundred Secret Senses\, The Bonesette r&rsquo\;s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and The Valley of Amazement\, all New York Times bestsellers. Her other wor ks include a memoir\, The Opposite of Fate\, and a book about wri ting titled Where the Past Begins: A Writer&rsquo\;s Memoir. She is also the author of two children&rsquo\;s books\, The Moon Lady\, and Sagwa\, The Chinese Siamese Cat\, along with numerous arti cles for magazines\, including the New Yorker\, Harper&rsquo\;s Bazaar \, and National Geographic\, as well as a short story "Rules for Virgins" published as an audiobook. Her work has been translated into 35 languages\, from Spanish\, French\, and Finnish to Chinese\, Arabic\, and Hebrew.
\nIn keeping with her love of science in the wild and ch ildhood love of doodling\, Tan began nature journal sketching leading to h er latest book The Backyard Bird Chronicles\, which debuted at #1 on both the New York Times and the Indie bestseller lists and ha s remained on the lists since publication. In his forward David Allen Sibl ey said\, "The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more than just de scribe the birds. They carry a sense of discovery...\, suggest the layers of patterns in the natural world\, and emphasize a deep personal connec&sh y\;tion between the watcher and the watched."
\nAmy Tan has been nom inated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Awar d\, and the International Orange Prize. She is also the recipient of the C ommonwealth Gold Award\, the 2005 Common Wealth Award of Distin\;guish ed Service\, the 2021 Carl Sandburg Literary Award\, and other honors. In March 2022 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sh e was also awarded the 2021 National Humanities Medal by President Biden i n a ceremony at the White House. She was named a 2024 Library Lion by the New York Public Library. In 2025 she was elected into the American Academy of Arts &\; Sciences.
\nMalibu Village Books will sell The B ackyard Bird Chronicles at the event\, and a book signing will follow the talk.
\nRSVPs are required.
\nMalibu City Hall is located at 23825 Stuart Ranch Road\, Malibu.
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