Speaker Biography
Fourth Annual National Book Awards at Concordia College
Maxine Hong Kingston
Recipient, 2008 National Book Foundation Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
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.” Hong Kingston is the 2008 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters recipient.
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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 means to be a Chinese woman.
Maxine Hong Kingston's Random House Page
Ms. Kingston's publisher.
Video: Bill Moyers 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.
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National Book Awards at Concordia College
