Maxine Hong Kingston & Viet Thanh Nguyen

Beginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound, richly imagined, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage point as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. To mark publication of the new Library of America edition, Kingston joins Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, editor of the volume and her former student, for an intimate conversation about her life and work.

This program is part of Library of America’s free LOA LIVE series featuring acclaimed writers, historians and literary scholars. Learn more at loa.org/events.