Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is a highly acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction and was one of the first Asian Americans to make it to the top of the literary world in America. Her first book, a memoir published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, won the National Book Critic's Circle Award and made her a literary celebrity at the age of 36. Kingston has since written two other critically hailed books. China Men, a sequel to The Woman Warrior, was published in 1980 and also received the National Book Critic's Circle Award; and in 1989 Kingston published her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.