New Kingston Memoir from Knopf
by Matthew Thornton -- Publishers Weekly, 1/11/2008 6:27:00 AM
Maxine Hong Kingston has signed with her longtime publisher Knopf to write a memoir on the occasion of turning 65; Deborah Garrison bought North American rights from Sandra Dijkstra. I Love a Broad Margin to my Life will reflect on growing older, taking Kingston back to China where she’ll reconnect with her classic first book, The Woman Warrior, and revealing a deeply personal glimpse of six “villages” that most influenced her life and writing.
Kingston, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of numerous books. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, published by Knopf in 1975, won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the book explores the female, Chinese-American experience. The followup to that book, China Men, won the National Book Award in 1981. This new memoir is tentatively scheduled for publication in 2010.
