On the C-SPAN Networks: Maxine Hong Kingston is an Author with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2003 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per ...

For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By At 83, the novelist and professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, likes to “go into the new.” ...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates ...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates ...

Kingston burst onto the scene in 1976 with The Woman Warrior and then kept writing. Critic John Powers says that, like James Baldwin, she's managed to shift American culture and remain relevant.

Host Liane Hansen talks to "the woman warrior," writer Maxine Hong Kingston. After years of working on what she refers to as "long books," the 60-year-old Kingston challenges herself with the ...

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels ...

Though billed as a memoir, Maxine Hong Kingston’s first book was, in fact, a novel about being more or less Chinese in the world. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and became a ...

Maxine Hong Kingston’s parents immigrated to the United States from China shortly before she was born. As a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she has consistently turned to experiences of ...

FILE - Author Maxine Hong Kingston appears in the backyard of her Oakland, Calif. home on April 10, 2001. Kingston, the Chinese-American author best known for "The Woman Warrior," was honored with ...