Maxine Hong Kingston

Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Airdate: Friday, May 25, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers.)

Acclaimed writer and peacemaker Maxine Hong Kingston talks to Bill Moyers about her writing, her activism and her work helping soldiers returning from war to find peace within themselves through writing.

On Memorial Day weekend, Bill Moyers Journal presents an illuminating interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, acclaimed author of many books, including the award-winning "The Woman Warrior" and her latest book, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace." For the past 15 years, Kingston has been working with veterans - more than 500 soldiers from World War II, from Vietnam, and now from Iraq - as well as other survivors of war to convert the horrors they experienced into the words and stories that Kingston believes will help them cope and survive.

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