 Gail K. Evanari | | 6,705 (14,881) | 258 | 3,139 |  (3.72) | 17 | 0 | Born in California to immigrant Chinese parents, Kingston was educated at the University of California at Berkeley. Kingston soared to literary celebrity upon the publication of her autobiographica The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976). The Woman Warrior is dominated by Kingston's mother; her next work, China Men (1980), although not autobiographical in the manner of her previous book, is focused on her father and on the other men in her family, giving fictionalized, poetic versions of their histories. The combination of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and myth in both books create a form of balanced opposites that one critic has likened to yin and yang. Her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, was published in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts … (more) |
Works by Maxine Hong Kingston Also by Maxine Hong Kingston The Lover (Introduction, some editions) 4,577 copies, 139 reviews Top members (works)GPEPadmin (56), kipen (17), seite (16), Sitting_Room (13), e-zReader (13), Streetlab (13), llibresantjoan (13), GraceWing-YuanToy (12), jennifersoule (11), VforValentina (11), BookTourData (11), jqus1 (10), KUglbtq (10), RGSS (9), jasbro (9) — more Recently addedAJ12754 (1), KSDBelgium (1), Estragon1958 (2), pascal (1), Mysteriousschmoo (1), LauraClayton (1), OldGlebe (1) Legacy LibrariesMember favoritesMembers: Ashley.Duval, dwgc, Himalmitra, mabith, CameronConaway, private member, deereads, kidzdoc, ready1, angelrose, KaraStambach, leopardess78, sungene, shalulah, amberalicia, gracefell, HesterPrynne Maxine Hong Kingston has 1 media appearance. Author Maxine Hong Kingston on Working With Veterans Maxine Hong Kingston has 7 past events. (show)  A Broad Margin to My Life: Maxine Hong Kingston Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, author of the renowned 1976 work The Woman Warrior, and the daughter of illegal Chinese immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston discusses the real-life politics of genre -- how protecting her parents and family meant designating their personal histories as fiction. 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Mary Gordon's most recent work is The Liar's Wife, a collection of four novellas, published by Pantheon in August 2014. She is the author of six novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received numerous other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader′s Digest Writers′ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City. (added from Random House)… (more) Mary Gordon Mary Gordon ( Circling My Mother, Final Payments, Joan of Arc, Pearl, Reading Jesus, The company of women, The Love of My Youth, The Shadow Man, The Stories of Mary Gordon, The Liar's Wife, The Woman Warrior, China Men) Mary Gordon's most recent work is The Liar's Wife, a collection of four novellas, published by Pantheon in August 2014. She is the author of six novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received numerous other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader′s Digest Writers′ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City. (added from Random House)… (more) Mary Gordon Mary Gordon ( Circling My Mother, Final Payments, Joan of Arc, Pearl, Reading Jesus, The company of women, The Love of My Youth, The Shadow Man, The Stories of Mary Gordon, The Liar's Wife, The Woman Warrior, China Men) Mary Gordon's most recent work is The Liar's Wife, a collection of four novellas, published by Pantheon in August 2014. She is the author of six novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received numerous other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader′s Digest Writers′ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City. (added from Random House)… (more) Mary Gordon Mary Gordon ( Circling My Mother, Final Payments, Joan of Arc, Pearl, Reading Jesus, The company of women, The Love of My Youth, The Shadow Man, The Stories of Mary Gordon, The Liar's Wife, The Woman Warrior, China Men) Mary Gordon's most recent work is The Liar's Wife, a collection of four novellas, published by Pantheon in August 2014. She is the author of six novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received numerous other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader′s Digest Writers′ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City. (added from Random House)… (more)  Oakland - Poetry Flash with Maxine Hong Kingston, Jean Valentine, and Fred Marchant Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of the always excellent Poetry Flash, this time with Maxine Hong Kingston, Fred Marchant and Jean Valentine on Sunday, September 8th at 3pm. Maxine Hong Kingston's new book is a memoir-in-verse entitled, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. Her previous memoirs and works of both fiction and nonfiction include, The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey:His Fake Book -- a novel -- and The Fifth Book of Peace. She is also the editor of Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, an anthology of writings from more than a decade of writing-and-meditation workshops she's led for Vietnam veterans and others to heal themselves through art. Among her honors are the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, PEN West Award in Fiction, and a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Fred Marchant's latest book of poems is The Looking House. Ilya Kaminsky says, "In a time of lies and mediocre ironies in literature, here is the voice that is never afraid to say what matters. This is the poetry of home yes, but many doors and windows in this book first and foremost 'teach the heart how to be a heart.'" The author of three previous collections, including Full Moon Boat, Marchant was one of the first Marine officers to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector during the war in Vietnam.
Jean Valentine's latest book of poems -- her eleventh -- is Break the Glass. Library Journal says of it, "As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader." It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She recently co-translated, with Ilya Kaminsky, Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the great Russian poets of the early twentieth century. Her honors include a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award.
Poetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews!
Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)"Let's Talk About It" Book Discussion Group
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