Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940–)
Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940–)
American memoirist and novelist. Born Oct 27, 1940, in Stockton, CA; dau. of Tom Hong and Ying Lan Chew; m. Earl Kingston, 1962; children: 1.
Lived with husband in Hawaii for 17 years before returning to mainland US; taught creative writing at University of California, Berkeley; wrote The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), China Men (1980), Hawaii One Summer (1987), Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (1998), To Be The Poet (2002) and The Fifth Book of Peace (2003); edited The Literature of California: Native American Beginnings to 1945, Volume 1 (2000). Won National Book Critics Circle Award for The Woman Warrior and PEN West award for Tripmaster Monkey.
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