Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese-American novelist, nonfiction writer, academic, and activist

Author Biography

Maxine Hong Kingston was born on October 27th, 1940, in Stockton, California. She was the first of six American-born children; her parents, Tom and Ying Lan Hong, had had two children in China before they came to America. Her mother trained as a midwife in To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton.
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Influences

William Carlos Williams

Virginia Woolf

On Artistic Idealism

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In this short, older video, Maxine Hong Kingston is interviewed about violence in modern culture and literature, as well the power of words and idealism.