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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1989
  • Latest Book:
    December 2014
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Wittman Ah Sing is a young Chinese-American hippie in San Francisco during the late sixties. Named after America's quintessential poet, indomitably garrulous and free-spirited, Wittman is as American as James Dean. Yet he also bears a striking resemb...



  • I did not wait for twenty years to write the pieces in this book, which is like a diary. There is sometimes only a week or two between an event and my writing about it. I wrote about my son’s surfing upon coming home from it. I wrote about the ...



  • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the National Book Award-winning author of China Men and The Woman Warrior comes a work weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.“A trenchant opus about su...





  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities -- im...




Award-Winning Books by Maxine Hong Kingston

Tripmaster Monkey
1990 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maxine Hong Kingston has published 5 books.

Maxine Hong Kingston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Woman Warrior, was published in December 2014.

The first book by Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey, was published in April 1989.

No. Maxine Hong Kingston does not write books in series.