Maxine hong kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

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  • Kingston's father (Tom) leaves China for U.S.A.

  • Kingston's mother (Ying Lan) joins Tom in U.S.A.

  • Kingston is born in Stockton, California

  • Kingston earns her B.A. from U.C. Berkley

    Kingston earned 11 scholarships that enabled her to enroll and attend University of California, Berkley. Her original major was engineering but she switched to English literature.

  • Kingston marries actor Earll Kingston

    They end up moving to Hawaii and teaching for ten years.

  • Kingston's son is born: Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei

  • Kingston earns her teaching certificate

  • The Woman Warrior: A Girlhood Among Ghosts is published

    This is Kingston's first novel.

  • General Nonfiction Award: National Book Critics Circle for The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

  • China Men- Kingston's second novel and companion to Woman Warrior is published

    After the success of her first two novels,Kingston was able to quite teaching full time and focus on writing. She did continue to teach as a traveling professor.

  • Hawaii One Summer- a collection of 12 pieces is published

  • Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book is published.

  • Fire rages through Kingston's homewotn of Oakland, California.

    Her Fourth book of Peace is destroyed (the only manustript).

  • National Book Award & the National Humanities Medal presenty by President Clinton

  • Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston is published

  • The Literature of California: Native American Beginnings to 1945, Volume 1 is published (Kingston is the editor)

  • To Be The Poet

  • Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards

  • Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

  • Awarded Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: National Book Foundation