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

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.

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.

Author Amy Tan spends hours in her backyard, watching and drawing birds go about their business. Her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, is full of essays and illustrations about her ...

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

Her charming new book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” is nonfiction, a memoir about taking up two new pursuits when she was in her 60s: drawing and birding. And like her novels, this book ...

She’s a novelist turned naturalist. New York Times best-selling author Amy Tan has turned her intense gaze to the world of birds and shared her private drawings and musings in a new book ...

Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ by: ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Posted: Apr 30, 2024 / 01:15 PM PDT ...

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.