Lucy Tan
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Lucy Tan is an American writer. She is the author of What We Were Promised, which was released by Little, Brown, & Company in 2018.[1]
Tan was raised in New Jersey, and splits her time between New York City and Shanghai.[2] Her parents are from Wuhan, China.[3] As a teenager, she traveled to China with a program meant to acquaint Chinese Americans with their parents' homeland, and experienced the Chinese countryside for the first time. When she moved to Shanghai after college, she was surprised by how modern it had become.[4] When Tan was younger, she aspired to be an actress as well as a writer, and once appeared in a 2005 promo for MTV's My Super Sweet 16 alongside Jennifer Lawrence.[5]
