Maxine Hong Kingston AKA Maxine Hong Born: 27-Oct-1940 Birthplace: Stockton, CA
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Asian Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Woman Warrior Father: Tom Hong (owned a Chinese laundry, d. 1991) Mother: Ying Lan Chew Husband: Earll Kingston (actor, m. 1962, one son) Son: Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei (b. 1964)
University: AB, University of California at Berkeley (1962) Teacher: Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
Guggenheim Fellowship 1981 American Book Award 1981 for China Men National Humanities Medal 1997 Chinese Ancestry
Author of books:
The Woman Warrior (1976) China Men (1980) Tripmaster Monkey, His Fake Book (1988, novel) Hawaii One Summer (1998, essays) To Be the Poet (2002) The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011, memoir)
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