biography
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Kingston, Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong
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| female
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Stockton, California, USA. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley (1962 BA, teaching certificate 1965). She married Earll Kingston (1962), and taught at a variety of high schools in Hawaii and California (1965–9) and at the college level (1970). She divided her time between Hawaii and Studio City, CA. In her books she often blended legend and autobiography, as in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980). She also wrote many stories and articles for periodicals. |
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