Kingston, Maxine Hong - About Maxine Hong Kingston
About Maxine Hong Kingston
Born: 27 October 1940 in Stockton, California
Married: Earll Kingston, 23 November 1962
Education: Edison High School, Stockton, and the University of California, Berkeley
CHILDHOOD AND BIOGRAPHICAL GLIMPSES
Maxine Hong Kingston’s first two books, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), are routinely referred to as works of autobiography. She would seem to have lent her authority to this view by the subtitle she gave to The Woman Warrior. But she describes her initial sense of all her work as that of a novelist, and she ascribes the decision to call her first two books nonfiction to her editors, who told her that reviewers are...
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