Amy Chua
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Amy Lynn Chua is an American legal scholar, corporate lawyer, and writer. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School with an expertise in international business transactions, law
Chua in 2012
Chua (right) and her daughters at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Hillbilly Elegy
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Midd
Amy Chua
…Best Teaching" Award during her time at Yale Law School. Chua taught JD Vance during his first year at Yale Law. She persuaded him to write his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which became a New York Times bestseller and a film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close. Vance credits Chua as the "authorial godmother" of the book…
Hillbilly Elegy
Vance discussed his memoir at an event on childhood poverty held by New America in 2017.
March 2026 Official Vice Presidential Portrait of JD Vance