Greenwich Library’s Lynne and Richard Pasculano Signature Series 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 on Thursday, October 23, at 7:00pm in the Library’s Berkley Theater.
Registration is required, and opens on Tuesday, September 30, at greenwichlibrary.org.
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.
Tan 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. 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.
Upcoming Pasculano Signature Series programs:
Wednesday, November 19
Former Astronaut Captain Scott Kelly, USN (Ret.)
Thursday, February 19
Bestselling Author; Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; Professor of History, Tulane University Walter Isaacson
Thursday, April 23
Wildlife Biologist, Filmmaker Ronan Donovan
For more information about upcoming events, please visit the library website.
The Greenwich Library system consists of the Main Library and its Byram Shubert and Cos Cob branches. The mission of Greenwich Library is to provide exceptional resources, programs and services that promote the joy of lifelong learning and discovery, and to offer a welcoming place for the community to gather and share experiences. With 2,200 programs and events per year, the Library seeks to serve as the cultural and intellectual crossroads of the community. Greenwich Library’s circulation is among the highest of public libraries in Connecticut and has been named a five-star library by Library Journal for 11 of the past 12 years for the high number of patron visits, circulation, use of public computers, and program attendance. Greenwich Library is located at 101 West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich. Cos Cob Library is located at 5 Sinawoy Road in Cos Cob. Byram Shubert Library is located at 21 Mead Avenue in Greenwich. More information is available online at www.greenwichlibrary.org or by calling 203-622-7900.