Maxine Hong Kingston, author portrait

Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace, among other works. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. She worked for many years as a senior lecturer in creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kingston lives in Oakland, California.

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
The Fifth Book of Peace
Tripmaster Monkey
The Woman Warrior

Books

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
The Fifth Book of Peace
Tripmaster Monkey
The Woman Warrior

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