An Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston

Originally presented on Monday, November 13, 2023, at 7 p.m. as part of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series in collaboration with Visions and Voices.
Called an “Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories” (The New Yorker), groundbreaking novelist, poet, and memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of award-winning and influential autobiographies The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts and China Men, which blurred the lines between nonfiction and fiction. She is also the author of the novel Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and editor of the anthology Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, compiled from the work of participants in the therapeutic poetry workshops she has led for more than 500 veterans of war.
Hong Kingston read from her works and participated in a conversation with USC professor David Ulin and a Q&A with the audience, followed by a book signing.