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Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton, California in 1940.
* She is the first of six American-born children in a Chinese family.
* Her work is rooted in her experience as a first-generation Chinese American.
* Her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, was published in 1976.
* The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1976.
* Kingston has written several other books, including China Men (1980), Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), and Hawai'i One Summer (2010).
* She has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Humanities Medal, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
* Kingston is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
* She continues to write and teach.
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