Amy Chua

Amy Chua is an American legal scholar, professor at Yale Law School and author of books that roil public conversation. She became a global sensation and lightning rod with Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother; her new novel The Golden Gate — a historical mystery set in 1940s San Francisco — shows the thriller genre rather than memoir.

Chua's scholarship addresses globalization, ethnicity and democracy (World on Fire, Day of Empire, Political Tribes). A bargained, swinging public figure — half celebration, half caricature — she continues to provoke vigorous debate over culture, parenting and power, and her fiction extends her abiding interest in family and ambition.