Amy Chua

About

A law Professor at Yale University, she is also known for her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother from 2011. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, released in 2003, was a New York Times bestseller.

Before Fame

She attended Harvard University, where she was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. She taught at Duke University for nearly a decade before joining the faculty at Yale Law School in 2001. 

Trivia

In 2007, she published a book entitled Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall. 

Family Life

She was born in Illinois to Chinese-Filipino immigrant parents. She married fellow Yale Law School professor, Jed Rubenfeld; the couple became parents to daughters named Sophia and Louisa. 

Associated With

She once expressed her admiration for Andy Rooney's work.