The Woman Warrior

This article is about the Maxine Hong Kingston memoir. For other uses, see Warrior woman (disambiguation).
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
First edition
AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston
LanguageEnglish
Genrememoir, autobiography, Chinese folk tale
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages209
ISBN0-679-72188-6
OCLC19756897
979.4/053/092 B 22
LC ClassCT275.K5764 A33 1989

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.

The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the 1970s.[1]

Kingston in c. 1976
  1. ^ Brown, Dale (March 2003), "Becoming a poet and peacemaker: Maxine Hong Kingston comes to PLU", Life of the Mind, retrieved 2009-03-30