WRITER

Maxine Hong Kingston

1940 - Today

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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxine Hong Kingston has received more than 412,523 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Maxine Hong Kingston is the 6,799th most popular writer (down from 6,010th in 2019), the 14,063rd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,307th in 2019) and the 1,022nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Selected from China men & The woman warrior
Chinese Americans, History, Family
1990
China men
American Authors, Biography, Chinese Americans
1977
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment
1999
Tripmaster monkey
American fiction, American literature, Asian-American authors
1989
The woman warrior
American Authors, Asian Americans, Biography
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
1976
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
alcoholism, baptism, Classic Literature
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 6,799 out of 7,302. Before her are Ti-Grace Atkinson, Russell T Davies, Zoran Stefanović, Timothy Findley, Marcel Beyer, and Julia Franck. After her are Deborah Harkness, Jim Butcher, Jonathan Lethem, Cory Doctorow, Kaori Ekuni, and Russell Hoban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 599. Before her are Ghulam Ali, Warren Cole, Stanley Hauerwas, Don LaFontaine, Madam Auring, and Padma Sachdev. After her are Faimalaga Luka, Bharati Mukherjee, Craig Brown, Robert Pinsky, Adam Faith, and Melba Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 14,063 out of 20,380. Before her are Jack Sikma (1955), Teddy Sears (1977), Bud Yorkin (1926), Jason Gedrick (1965), Travis Pastrana (1983), and Steven Sotloff (1983). After her are Daniel W. Bursch (1957), Brutus Beefcake (1957), Roscoe Conkling (1829), Johnny Gioeli (1967), Melanie Mayron (1952), and Deborah Harkness (1965).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Maxine Hong Kingston ranks 1,022. Before her are Brannon Braga (1965), Bryan Fuller (1969), D. C. Fontana (1939), Dave Meltzer (1959), Philip Levine (1928), and Ti-Grace Atkinson (1938). After her are Deborah Harkness (1965), Jim Butcher (1971), Jonathan Lethem (1964), Russell Hoban (1925), Mary L. Trump (1965), and Anne Waldman (1945).

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