Author

Books by Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton, California in 1940, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied at UC Berkeley and went on to teach at UC Berkeley, where she eventually became a professor emerita. The Woman Warrior, her debut book, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction in 1976. Her subsequent books include China Men and Tripmaster Monkey. She is widely credited with opening American literature to Chinese-American voices and with establishing the literary form sometimes called "talk-story" — the blending of autobiography and folklore.