Aimee Liu is the bestselling author of the novel Glorious Boy, as well as Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Aimee's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. And her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She taught for many years in Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program.
Aimee grew up mainly in Connecticut but also lived in India for two years. Her father was born in Shanghai, the son of a Chinese scholar-revolutionary and his American wife. She studied painting at Yale.
Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), China Men (1980), and other works.
Some links:
2020 New Yorker profile of Ms. Kingston by Hua Hsu.
John Leonard's 1976 review of The Woman Warrior in the New York Times.
Library of America's Maxine Hong Kingston page.
"Your moment of Maxine Hong Kingston": Ms. Kingston reads from her memoir in verse, I Love a Broad Margin in My Life, in 2011.
