I Love a Broad Margin To My Life
Author(s): Maxine Hong Kingston
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of immigrants to America.
General Information
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- : CCV
- : Harvill Secker
- : 01 March 0000
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Maxine Hong Kingston
- : Paperback
- : 3-Nov
- : 818.54
- : 240
More About The Product
An imaginative autobiography from one America's most important female writers; along with Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston defines a generation.
Maxine Hong Kingston was born in California in 1940, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied engineering at Berkeley before switching to English literature. After her marriage to actor Earll Kingston, she moved to Hawai'i where she worked as a teacher and continued to write her highly acclaimed books. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including, in 2008, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
