Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Collects poignant & inspirational firsthand accounts of war & its aftermath as provided by veterans, survivors, conscientious objectors, & abuse survivors who endured a range of circumstances, from growing up in a military family or struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder to being rendered homeless or managing substance abuse. Original.

Maxine Hong Kingston is senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. For her memoirs & fiction, The Fifth Book of Peace, The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, & Hawai’i One Summer, Kingston has earned numerous awards, among them the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, an American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters Literature Award, & a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the rare title of “Living Treasure of Hawai’i.”