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Maxine Hong Kingston (湯婷婷; born October 27 1940 ) is Professor Emeritus at the University Of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962 . She is also a prolific academic and writer. She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California . She was the first of six American-born children; her parents also had two children in China before they came to America, making Maxine the third of eight children in total. Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton . Her father had been brought up a scholar and taught in his village of Sun Woi, near Canton. Tom left China for America in 1924 and took a job in a laundry. Her works often reflect on her cultural heritage and blend fiction with non-fiction. Among her works are '' The Woman Warrior '' ( 1976 ), awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and ''China Men'' ( 1980 ), which was awarded the 1981 National Book Award. She has written one novel, ''Tripmaster Monkey'', a story depicting a character based on the mythical Chinese character Sun Wu Kong . Her most recent books are ''To Be The Poet'' and ''The Fifth Book of Peace''. She was awarded the 1997 National Humanities Medal by President Of The United States Bill Clinton . Kingston was a member of the committee to choose the design for the California commemorative quarter. She was arrested in March 2003 in Washington, D.C. , for crossing a police line during a Protest Against The War In Iraq . In April, 2007, Hong Kingston was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special Award in Publishing for her most recent novel ''Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace'' (2006), edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. She married actor Earl Kingston in . They now live in Oakland . Kingston was honored as a 175th Speaker Series writer at Emma Willard School in September 2005. SELECTED WORKS
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