1. Maxine Hong Kingston b.1940 (75)
““Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.”
By Roohi Khan

2. Kingston’s childhood
She was born in Stockton, California, to Chinese immigrant parents.
Her father was a school teacher and poet in china. Her mother was a doctor.
In America, her father worked at gambling and laundry. Her mother raised 6 children. She was the eldest one to born in America.

3. Personal life She got married in 1962 to Earll Kingston
She met her husband at university of California, Berkley.
They had a son in 1964.

4. Education and Work
She attended university of California, Berkley and received full scholarship.
B.A in English
After graduation, both Maxine and her husband taught at Sunset high school.
Then they moved to Hawaii and taught for 10 years.
She’s a feminist, anti war activist and a journalist.
She was arrested in 2003 for participating in an antiwar protest

5. Work as a writer
She published her first book woman warrior; Memoirs of a girlhood among Ghosts in 1976.
Her book is about assimilation, conflicts Chinese American face and gender roles
It’s based on myths, folk tales and her experience.
She tried to mediate between past and present.
Other famous writing includes China Men, The Fifth Book of Peace

6. Work as a Writer
Her father annotated both of her books China Men and Woman Warrior
Another of her famous book is Trip Master Monkey, about a young man trying to find home in America. She uses realism, magic and humor
She also published poems, articles and stories
She was inspired by Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and Virginia Wolf

7. Awards National Book Award for nonfiction 1980-China Men
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
National Humanities Medal in 1977
John Dos Passes prize for Literature
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
the PEN West Award for Fiction
Living Treasure of Hawaii
2013 National Medal of Arts

8. Criticism
Although her books were a huge success she received criticism from Chinese writers
Frank Chin a Chinese American writer said that she created a fake Chinese American Culture.

9. Citation
Augustine, Jocelyn. "National Medal of Arts." Home. National Endowments for the Arts, 08 July Web. 06 Aug
Editors, Biography.com. "Maxine Hong Kingston." The Biography.com Website. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 06 Aug
The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia. "Maxine Hong Kingston." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 06 Aug