1. Maxine Hong Kingston
1940-

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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 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.