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

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.