1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its i…