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Maxine Hong Kingston
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born
October 27, 1940
gender
female
place of birth
Stockton, California, The United States
about this author
She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California. She was the third of eight children, and the first among them born in the United States. Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton. Her father had been brought up a scholar and taught in his village of Sun Woi, near Canton. Tom left China for America in 1924 and took a job in a laundry.
Her works often reflect on her cultural heritage and blend fiction with non-fiction. Among her works are The Woman Warrior (1976), awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and China Men (1980), which was awarded the 1981 National Book Award. She has written one novel, Tripmaster Monkey, a story depicting...more
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.75 — 3,439 ratings — published 1976 10 editions |
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China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.73 — 374 ratings — published 1980 7 editions |
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.50 — 282 ratings — published 1989 4 editions |
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The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.69 — 97 ratings — published 2003 5 editions |
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Hawai'i One Summer (Latitude 20 Books) by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1998 |
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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2006 |
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To Be the Poet by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 2002 |
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The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 3.47 — 15 ratings — published 2005 |
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1989 |
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Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (Literary Conversations Series) by Maxine Hong Kingston avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 1998 2 editions |
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"This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read."
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
"...it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants."
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
— Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
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