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Lynne and Richard Pasculano Signature Series: Amy Tan

THIS EVENT IS FULL. Please join the waitlist or livestream (link to be shared on 10/16).

Greenwich Library is pleased to welcome best-selling author Amy Tan in conversation with Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent and Chief Arts Correspondent for PBS NewsHour to discuss her significant body of work. 

Born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan rejected her mother’s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She chose to write fiction instead, resulting in a successful career with many books on The New York Times bestseller list including The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement. 

She has been nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the International Orange Prize. She is also the recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award, the 2005 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, the 2021 Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and other honors. In March 2022 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was also awarded the 2021 National Humanities Medal by President Biden in a ceremony at the White House. She was named a 2024 Library Lion by the New York Public Library and was featured on PBS's Finding Your Roots. Her work has been translated into 35 languages. In keeping with her love of science in the wild and childhood love of doodling, she recently took up nature journal sketching. Her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Knopf), debuted at #1 on both The New York Times and the Indie bestseller lists.

This event will be livestreamed and recorded. The link will be shared on 10/16/25. Copies of Tan's books will be available for sale and signing after the program and will be provided by Diane's Books.

The Lynne and Richard Pasculano Signature Series offers dynamic, exceptional public programming that engages the Greenwich community and region, featuring nationally recognized experts for timely analysis and conversations that promote an exchange of ideas. This series is made possible by a gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano.

Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Berkley Theater
Audience:
  Adult     Staff  
Categories:
  Lecture and Conversation  

Registration is required. There are no seats available but a waiting list is available.

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into 35 languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

In his more than 30-year career with the News Hour, Jeffrey Brown has served as co-anchor, studio moderator, and field reporter on a wide range of national and international issues, with work taking him around the country and to many parts of the globe. As arts correspondent he has profiled many of the world's leading writers, musicians, actors and other artists. Among his signature works at the News Hour: a multi-year series, Culture at Risk, about threatened cultural heritage in the United States and abroad; the creation of the NewsHour’s online “Art Beat”; and hosting the monthly book club, “Now Read This,” a collaboration with The New York Times.

Photo credit for Amy Tan: Kim Newmoney