Author from Hawaii. Literature and Language Essay.

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Maxine Hong Kingston was born on 27th October 1940 at California in the United States. Much of her work is founded on her experience as a Chinese American. She was the oldest child of Chinese parents born in America. Her father was a scholar. He was born in China but migrated to New York in 1924 (Ostdick). Unfortunately, he could not find job as a calligrapher or poet and ended up doing laundry work. Besides, Hong’s mother was also born in China but migrated to New York in 1939.
Hong completed her undergraduate in 1962 at California University. She got married in 1962 and had her first-born son in 1964. In 1966-1967, Hong worked as a teacher at Sunset High School in California. She later moved to Hawaii, and held numerous teaching jobs for 10 years. She published her first book entitled, “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Gir...