Maxine Hong Kingston
Author
1940 –
Who is Maxine Hong Kingston?
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States.
She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior, which discusses gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women. Kingston has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American Literature including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men.
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- Born
- Oct 27, 1940
Stockton - Also known as
- Maxine Ting Ting Hong
- Parents
- Spouses
- Earll Kingston
(1962 - )
- Earll Kingston
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Chinese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- China
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Oakland
- Stockton
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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