Author Maxine Hong Kingston will headline Montgomery County Community College’s 2009 Writers Conference on Nov. 6-7 at the Central Campus in Blue Bell. Kingston's Friday evening keynote address kicks off the annual two-day conference, which includes workshops for working and aspiring writers, agent appointments, and more. Registration information for the conference will be posted to the Writers Conference website as it becomes available.
Kingston is known for her intricate weaving of fact and fiction. She has earned several prestigious literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the National Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton in 1997. A notable political activist, Kingston also received a publishing award for editing Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace in 2006. She is the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts; Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book; China Men; and The Fifth Book of Peace.
