Maxine Hong Kingston

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Maxine Hong Kingston in New York City in September 2006.

Maxine Hong Kingston ( Chinese : 湯婷婷, Tāng Tíng Tíng; born October 27, 1940 in Stockton , California) is a Chinese-American writer and professor emeritus (literary scholar) at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her father, Tom Hong, a scholar, came to the United States in 1924 and ran a laundry there. Her mother, Ying Lan Hong, a midwife, was only able to follow her husband to America in 1939 and worked there as a traditional Chinese healer. Kingston is the third of eight children and the oldest of six born in the United States.

Kingston studied English at Berkeley , earned her bachelor's degree in 1962, and first worked as a high school teacher from 1965 . In 1967 she went to Hawaii and began writing there. In the 1980s, she began teaching writing at UC Berkeley. On March 8, 2003, Kingston was arrested in Washington, DC during a demonstration against the war in Iraq for breaking a police line.

Kingston has been married to actor Earl Kingston since 1962 and has a son with him. She lives in Oakland , California.

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Kingston is a major writer in Sino-American literature . Most of her work focuses on the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the United States . With works like The Woman Warrior , in which she deals with questions of sexual and ethnic identity, she has also made contributions to feminism . Kingston's writing is characterized by a synthesis of fictional and non-fictional elements that has been described as creative nonfiction . She has been honored repeatedly with important literary prizes.

Publications and Awards

  • 1975 - No Name Woman (essay)
  • 1976 - The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (autobiography)
National Book Critics Circle Award , General Nonfiction Award
  • 1980 - China Men
National Book Award for General Nonfiction
  • 1987 - Hawai'i One Summer (collection of essays)
  • 1987 - Through the Black Curtain
  • 1989 - Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (Roman)
PEN West Award in fiction
  • 2002 - To Be The Poet
  • 2003 - The Fifth Book of Peace
  • 2006 - Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (anthology; editor)
California Book Award Special Award

Other awards:

Documentary about Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Maxine Hong Kingston ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, and other Notable Women Arrested Protesting Against the War with Iraq ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uncp.edu @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unitedforpeace.org
  3. ↑ "Perhapsing": The use of speculation in Creative Nonfiction ; Bruce Dobler's Creative Nonfiction Compendium
  4. ^ Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists
  5. ↑ Maxine Hong Kingston  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anisfield-wolf.org  
  6. ↑ Maxine Hong Kingston ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Asian Pacific Fund @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asianpacificfund.org
  7. ^ Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2008 National Book Foundation
  8. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kingston, Maxine Hong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton (California)