Anti-War Activist, Author, Teacher, Journalist. (1940–) Early Life
- Born on October 27, 1940, in Stockton, California.
- Third child of eight siblings.
- bachelor degree from Berkeley (where she's currently a Professor) in 1962.
- Majored in Engineering before switching to English
- Before she became a famous writer, she was a teacher, working in Hawaii and California.
- Her father was a scholar who taught in their village before moving to the US. Career
- Got married in 1962 and began teaching in high school as a career
- Taught English and Math
- Writer - Labeled a Nonfiction writer. Recognition
● 1976 - General Nonfiction Award (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts) ● 1978 - Anisfield-Wolf Race Relations Award ● 1980 - National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award ● 1981 - National Book Award for General Nonfiction (China Men) ● 1982 - National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award ● 1989 - PEN West Award in fiction (Tripmaster Monkey) ● 2006 - Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards ● 2008 - Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation ● 2013 - National Medal of Arts, 2013 Works
❏ The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among the Ghosts (1976) - creative nonfiction that showed
the lives of Chinese living in America in the 20th century.
❏ China Men (1980) - Sequel to The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among the Ghosts.
❏ Tripmaster Monkey, His Fake Book (1989) - Hawaii One Summer (1998)
❏ The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) - Explains her life in the 1990s. Sources
- Bio.com. A&E Networks Television. Web. 12 Nov. 2015. 37925#profile>. - Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940). The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007. 791-792. Print.