Question: When was the author of Fish Cheeks born?
Context: Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience.  Her novel "The Joy Luck Club" was adapted into a film in 1993 by director Wayne Wang. Heiko Bleher (born October 18, 1944) is a German researcher, author, photographer and filmmaker best known in the scientific community for his contribution to the exploration of fresh and brackish water habitats worldwide and the discovery of many species of fish and aquatic plants, several of which carry his name, discovery location or are named in honor of Bleher's family including Hemmigrammus bleheri, Leporinus bleheri, Bleheratherina pierucciae, Streatocranus bleheri, Channa bleheri, Phenacogrammus bleheri, Moenkhausia heikoi, Chilatherina bleheri, Vrisea bleheri, and various others. William Thornton Innes III, L.H.D. (February 2, 1874 – February 27, 1969) was an American aquarist, author, photographer, printer and publisher.  Innes was the author of numerous influential books and hundreds of articles about aquarium fish, aquatic plants and aquarium maintenance during the formative years of the aquarium hobby in America.  Born in Philadelphia, he was the founder, publisher and editor of "The Aquarium", the first successful national magazine on the subject of keeping freshwater tropical fishes.  The magazine ran monthly for thirty-five years from May 1932 through January 1967. James A. Estes (born 1945) is an American ecologist and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), known for his studies of sea otters and kelp forest ecology.  Born in Sacramento, California, he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1967, earned a Masters in Biology from Washington State University in 1969, and a Ph.D. in biology and statistics from the University of Arizona in 1974.  He worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey from 1974 to 2007 before joining the UCSC faculty.  He co-edited the books "The Community Ecology of Sea Otters" (1988), "Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems" (2007), and "Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature" (2010), and is the author of "Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature" (2016).  He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. "Fish Cheeks" is a 1987 one page short story by Chinese-American author Amy Tan and her first published essay.  The work was first published in "Seventeen" and covers a Christmas Eve dinner when Tan was 14 years old.  It was subsequently published as a part of "". Kazuhiro Nakaya (仲谷 一宏 , Nakaya Kazuhiro , born July 27, 1945) is a Japanese marine scientist and ichthyologist.  He graduated from Hokkaido University with a BA in 1968 and with a PhD in 1972.  He is professor of Marine Environment and Resources at the Marine Laboratory for Biodiversity.  He specializes in taxonomy and evolution of sharks, rays, chimaeras, and Lake Tanganyikan fish.  He is the author of many articles and books on sharks and fish.  In 1995 he was put in charge of dissecting and preparing the 7th specimen of the very rare megamouth shark. Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual.  He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.  Fish has previously served as the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University and is dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bob Morris (born May 25, 1950) is an American novelist who writes Caribbean themed mysteries.  He is also the author of several collections of nonfiction, including "Gut Check", "Short Road to Hell", "The Man with the Fish on His Foot", "All Over the Map", and "The Whole Shebang".  Morris is president of Story Farm, a custom publishing company that creates books, magazines and other publications for a wide variety of clients.  He is an adjunct professor at Rollins College and teaches courses in food writing and crime fiction. John Albert Long (born 1957) is an Australian paleontologist who is currently Strategic Professor in Palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.  He was previously the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  He is also an author of popular science books.  His main area of research is on the fossil fish of the Late Devonian Gogo Formation from northern Western Australia.  It has yielded many important insights into fish evolution, such as Gogonasus and Materpiscis, the later specimen being crucial to our understanding of the origins of vertebrate reproduction.  His love of fossil collecting began at age 7 and he graduated with PhD from Monash University in 1984, specialising in Palaeozoic fish evolution.  He held postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University (1984–85, Rothmans Fellow), The University of Western Australia (1986–87, Queen Elizabeth II Award) and The University of Tasmania (1988–89, ARC Fellow) before taking up a position as Curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Western Australian Museum (1989–2004), and then as Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria (2004–2009). Barbara Fister (born 1954) is an American author, blogger, librarian, and self-proclaimed "curmudgeon-at-large" best known for her writing about libraries and the role they play in student learning.  She is a frequent contributor to Library Babel Fish for Inside Higher Ed as well as ACRLog, a blog by and for academic and research librarians.
Answer: February 19, 1952