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Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American author and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and a number of non-fiction books on the Sino-American experience. Kingston has contributed to the feminist movement with works such as her memoir The Woman Warrior, which deals with gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women. She has received a number of awards for her contributions to American literature, most notably the National Nonfiction Book Award for Chinese Men of 1981. Kingston has received extensive criticism for reinforcing racist stereotypes in her work and her fictions of traditional stories. Chinese to draw the attention of the West to the Chinese. She has also been criticized by Asian academics for "exaggerating the persecution of Asian American women."
BornMaxine Ting Ting Hong, October 27, 1940, Stockton, California
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksThe Woman Warrior, The Fifth Book of Peace, Tripmaster Monkey, China Men
Notable awardsNational Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, National Humanities Medal, National Medal of Arts
SpouseEarll Kingston
ChildrenJoseph Lawrence Chung Mei

About Maxine Hong Kingston

Memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton, California, United States on October 27, 1940. She's 84 years old today.

She is well known for her feminist memoir, The Woman Warrior, which she wrote in Chinese. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1980 for her novel China Men.

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Maxine Hong Kingston before becoming famous

Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1940 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied engineering and English. She began her literary career shortly after relocating to Hawaii in the late 1960s.

Achievement of Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior, her autobiographical work, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Maxine Hong Kingston's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Her Chinese immigrant parents raised her in California. She married actor Earll Kingston in 1962, and the pair had one son.

Maxine Hong Kingston on Social Media

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Maxine Hong Kingston Collabed with

US President Bill Clinton presented her with the National Humanities Medal in 1997.

Maxine Hong Kingston Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Maxine Hong Kingston updated on March 12 2023.