Writers on Craft: Maxine Hong Kingston

 Suzanne LaGrande interviews Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, The Fifth Book of Peace, and most recently, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. A teacher, as well as a writer, Ms. Kingston taught creative writing at UC Berkeley since 1981. Recently retired,  Ms. Kingston reflects on how she learned to write, what she taught her students about creative writing, and what she learned over the years about the process of writing.