![]() ![]() Tan subsequently moved with her mother and younger brother, John Jr., to Switzerland, where she finished high school at the Institut Monte Rosa in Montreux. When she was fifteen, her father and older brother Peter both died of brain tumors within six months of each other. ![]() Although she was born in Oakland, California, her family moved a number of times throughout her childhood. ![]() Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who traveled to the US to escape the Chinese Revolution. ![]() Tan is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989) brought her fame and has remained one of her most popular works.
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