The Fifth Book of Peace -- Maxine Hong Kingston

<br><b>Author:</b> Maxine Hong Kingston<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 10/01/2004<br><b>Pages:</b> 401<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.70lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.89h x 5.44w x 0.88d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679760634<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times</i> 12/19/2004 pg. 30<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963. They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai'i, where Kingston took various teaching posts. They returned to California seventeen years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley. <p/>While in Hawai'i, Kingston wrote her first two books. <b>The Woman Warrior</b>, her first book, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, <b>China Men</b>, earned the National Book Award. Still toda