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Maxine Hong Kingston 1940-

Life Family Father: Tom Hong, a first-generation immigrant from China, owned a laundry in Stockton, CA Mother: Ying Lan (Chew) Hong (“Brave Orchid”), first-generation immigrant from China Husband: Earll Kingston, actor Son: Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei, born in 1964

Home Stockton, CA Berkeley, CA Honolulu, Hawaii Oakland, CA

Chronology 1940: born in Stockton, CA 1962: graduates from UC Berkeley Majoring first in engineering then in English 1962: marries Earll Kingston, a classmate at Berkeley 1964: gives birth to son, Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei 1965: earns a teaching certificate and begins teaching high school

Chronology Continued 1967: moves to Hawaii 1976: publishes The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 1976: begins teaching English at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu 1980: publishes China Men 1981: receives Guggenheim Fellowship 1981: begins teaching at UC, Berkeley 1989: Publishes Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Woman Warrior Published in 1976 was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

Other Awards In 1997, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton. Kingston was also a member of the committee to choose the design for the California commemorative quarter. In April, 2007, Hong Kingston was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special Award in Publishing for Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), an anthology which she edited.

More Awards Anisfield-Wolf Race Relations Award, 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award, 1980 National Book Award for General Nonfiction for China Men, 1981 National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award, 1982 PEN West Award in fiction for Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1989 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards, 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: National Book Foundation, 2008

Selected works No Name Woman (essay), 1975 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, 1976 China Men, Knopf, 1980 Hawaii One Summer, 1987 Through the Black Curtain, 1987 Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1989 To Be the Poet, 2002 The Fifth Book of Peace, 2003 Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, 2006 I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, 2011

Arrest Record She was arrested in March 2003 in Washington, D.C. for crossing a police line during a protest against the war in Iraq. Kingston was arrested on International Women's Day (March 8) of 2003. Participating in an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. coordinated by women-initiated organization Code Pink, Kingston refused to leave the street after being instructed to do so by local police forces. She shared a jail cell with author Alice Walker. Kingston's anti-war stance has significantly trickled into her work; she has stated that writing The Fifth Book of Peace was initiated and inspired by growing up during World War II.