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

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.

As time passes, Tan becomes intentionally curious in nature, fascinated as a pair of Great Horned Owls take up residence in her backyard, depleting the rat population as they regurgitate pellets ...

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

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 ...

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.

This cover image released by Knopf shows “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” by Amy Tan. (Knopf via AP) By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Posted: Apr 30, 2024 / 03:15 PM CDT Updated: Apr 30, 2024 / ...

Amy Tan, the critically acclaimed author of “The Joy Luck Club” and other works, will discuss her new book “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” at two Southern California venues on May 20 and 21.