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DESCRIPTION:The East Bay-San Francisco branches of the Women's International League for 
 Peace and Freedom are honored to have Maxine Hong Kingston, celebrated 
 author and professor of creative writing at UC Berkeley, as the final 
 speaker in our Peace Talks series. She will reflect on her life and 
 writing, on immigration, war, peace, and activism. She will be in 
 conversation with Kate Raphael, author and producer of KPFA's Women's 
 Magazine. \n\nKingston's first book, a memoir entitled The Woman Warrior, 
 was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critic's Circle Award, 
 making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China 
 Men, earned the National Book Award. Both books are still widely taught in 
 literature and other classes. Kingston has earned additional awards, 
 including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey, the 
 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National 
 Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton. \n\nHer most 
 recent books are The Fifth Book of Peace and I Love a Broad Margin to My 
 Life. Kingston is Senior Lecturer Emerita for Creative Writing at the 
 University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, she was awarded the 
 National Medal of Arts by President Obama.\n\nEvent is free, wheelchair 
 accessible, refreshments served, all are welcome\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/23/18802135.php
SUMMARY:Maxine Hong Kingston in Conversation with Kate Raphael - Reflection on Our Times
LOCATION:Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA (right at the Ashby 
 BART station)\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/23/18802135.php
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