An Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston

USC Visions and Voices

As part of the Subir &amp; Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series, Hong Kingston will participate a reading and conversation.

Bovard Auditorium

“We are in the presence of a splendid raconteur, who shares with us the myths and stories that emerge from the lode of a culture’s deepest realities.”—Chicago TribuneCalled an “Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories” (The New Yorker), groundbreaking novelist, poet, and memoirist <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maxine-hong-kingston" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Maxine Hong Kingston</a> 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. As part of the <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/chowdhury-prize/the-subir-and-malini-chowdhury-foundation-distinguished-speakers-series/#:~:text=A%20collaboration%20between%20the%20USC,English%20department%20and%20the%20university." target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series</a>, Hong Kingston will read from her works and participate in a conversation with USC professor <a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/david-ulin/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">David Ulin</a> and Q&A with the audience, followed by a book signing. <a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=44103012157319&s_type=&s_genre=" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here to learn more. </a>

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