# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maxine-hong-kingston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:23.432Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/maxine-hong-kingston"
name: "Maxine Hong Kingston"
slug: "maxine-hong-kingston"
description: "Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated in 1962 with a B.A. degree in English. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans."
tagline: "Chinese American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maxine_Hong_Kingston_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1940-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump