Maxine Hong Kingston
Author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
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Works by Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings (LOA #355) (Library of America,… (2022) 41 copies
The Lover 27 copies
No title 1 copy
“No Name Woman” 1 copy
Associated Works
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contributor — 180 copies
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Contributor — 158 copies
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Contributor — 77 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Contributor — 7 copies
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- Legal name
- Hong, Maxine (born)
Kingston, Maxine Hong (married) - Birthdate
- 1940-10-27
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Stockton, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Stockton, California, USA (birth)
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - Education
- University of California, Berkeley (1962)
- Occupations
- teacher
professor
novelist - Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (1997)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1990)
John Dos Passos Prize (1998)
Robert Kirsch Award (2007)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2011)
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Statistics
- Works
- 17
- Also by
- 30
- Members
- 7,290
- Popularity
- #3,355
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 88
- ISBNs
- 66
- Languages
- 5
- Favorited
- 18