Maxine Hong Kingston

Part of a world of Chinese and American Literature: Kingston combines fiction and memoir to trace the paths of loss and healing

• Blurring the lines between myth and reality, fiction and nonfiction in her award-winning seven books and anthologies including, Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, To Be The Poet, and The Fifth Book of Peace.
• Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a memoir of growing up Chinese American in California , is one of the most widely taught books on college campuses for the past 30 years.
• Her new work, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, is a book-length poem with reflections on politics, love, loss, aging, history, myth and imagination. A free-verse memoir that follows her from the United States to China and back.

“The artist is a mental traveler, presenting her life as a dreamlike journey that culminates in a listing of "my dead," some 50 names, which both pulls Kingston toward oblivion and inspires seven reasons to live.”

- Publisher’s Weekly