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 Maxine
Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston was born to
Chinese immigrant parents in Stockton, California in 1940
and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
A long-time member of the Berkeley faculty, she is currently
Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing.
Her nonfiction books include The
Woman Warrior, which won the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Nonfiction, China Men, which was awarded
the National Book Award in 1981, Hawaii One Summer,
Through the Black Curtain, To Be the Poet, and
The Fifth Book of Peace. She has written one novel, Tripmaster
Monkey: His Fake Book. Kingston is the recipient of an
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and
a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, as well as the title of “Living Treasure
of Hawaii.”
Maxine Hong Kingston photo ©
Gail K. Evenari.
Backlist
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
edited by Maxine Hong Kingston, Koa Books, 2006
The Woman
Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Knopf distributed by Random House, 1976
Through
the Black Curtain
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987
Hawai'i
One Summer (essays)
Meadow Press, San Francisco, 1987
Tripmaster
Monkey: His Fake Book (novel)
Knopf, 1989
To Be
the Poet (nonfiction)
Harvard University Press, 2002
The Fifth Book
of Peace
(nonfiction), Brent, 2006
Awards
National Book Award
Winner for General Nonfiction
China Men (1981)
National Book Critics Circle
Award for Nonfiction
The Woman Warrior (1976)
National Humanities Medal
(1997)
Presented by President Bill Clinton
Powells.com
Interview
Maxine Hong Kingston After the Fire -- Almost three
decades ago, Maxine Hong Kingston published The Woman
Warrior.
TIME Magazine, 60 Years
of Asian Heroes:
Maxine Hong Kingston
She overturned traditional notions of what it meant to be
a Chinese woman.
Maxine
Hong Kingston Teacher Resource Guide
Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Maxine
Hong Kingston page. You will find biography, lesson plans,
and criticism on this page. The ISLMC is a meta-site for
librarians, teachers, parents and students.
Maxine
Hong Kingston's Random House Page
Ms. Kingston's publisher.
 VIDEO
Bill
Moyers Journal Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston | PBS
May 25, 2007 On Memorial Day weekend, the JOURNAL presents
an illuminating interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, acclaimed
author of many books including
VIDEO
UC
Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts
Lunch Poems: Maxine Hong Kingston. February 5, 2004, 03:00PM
... Maxine Hong Kingston burst on the literary scene in 1976
with her book, The Woman Warrior. ...
The National Book
Foundation's Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Every fall, in conjunction with the conferring of The National
Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's
Literature, the Board of Directors of the Foundation also
presents a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters, which comes with $10,000. The recipient is a person
who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service,
or a corpus of work. |
