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Maxine Hong Kingston
http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm

An essay written by Pin-chia Feng about Maxine Hong Kingston as a feminist and Chinese-American author. The essay discusses all of Kingston's books as well as her background.

Taking Tea with Maxine Hong Kingston
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/ms/hong.htm

A 1997 interview with Maxine Hong Kingston from the literary magazine Manuscript, that focuses on the form and style of her writing.

Woman Warrior
http://www.stanford.edu/group/vpue/ihum/kingston/

Run by Stanford University, this site, dedicated to Maxine Hong Kingston's popular memoir The Woman Warrior, features several critical essays.

BIOGRAPHY
Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston (b. 1940). Born in Stockton, California to Chinese immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston attended both American and Chinese schools while working with her parents in the family laundry. Kingston attended the University of California, Berkley, to study engineering, but quickly switched to English literature. She moved to Hawaii with her husband and began teaching creative writing at the Mid-Pacific Institute. In 1976 she published her first book The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a partly fictionalized memoir of her childhood with her Chinese ancestors. The book won the 1976 National Book Critics Award for nonfiction and was named one of the top ten nonfiction works of the decade by Time magazine. Kingston has published two novels China Men (1980) and Trip Master Monkey: His Fake Book (1988) as well as a collection of essays Hawaii One Summer (1987).