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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese ...
Sunset High School was a public high school in Hayward, California, United States. It opened in 1959 and was closed in 1990. ... Maxine Hong Kingston, taught English ...
Maxine Hong Kingston – novelist, The Woman Warrior; R. F. Kuang (匡灵秀) ... Chinese school founder, co-author of Chinese Fables and Folk Stories [32]
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.
Maxine Hong Kingston, wrote The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts [12] Patrick Kinser-Lau, Broadway actor [13] Dawn Mabalon, historian and professor [14] John Nisby, former NFL guard with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins. One of the first African American players to play for the Washington Redskins. [15]
China Men is a 1980 collection of "stories" by Maxine Hong Kingston.It is a sequel to The Woman Warrior with a focus on the history of the men in Kingston's family. It won the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book is the third book written by Maxine Hong Kingston, and was published in 1989.The story follows Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate of University of California, Berkeley of Chinese ancestry in his adventures about San Francisco during the 1960s.
He also wrote and produced (or co-produced with Joan Saffa and Judy Flannery) several hour-long PBS biographies of noted writers, including: Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Beryl Markham, [14] Carlos Fuentes, [15] and Maxine Hong Kingston. At KQED, Talbot reported and produced dozens of feature news stories for The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.