作家简介汤亭亭(Maxine Hong Kingston)1940年出生于加利福尼亚州斯托克顿(Stockton)一个华人移民家庭,父母为来自广东及其附近地区的华人,父亲赴美前是私塾教师,母亲曾在广东一医学院学习妇产科。1962年,汤亭亭毕业于加州大学伯克利分校英语系,获文学学士学位,同年和演员厄尔·金斯顿(Earll Kingston)结婚,以教书为业,同时进行文学创作。1976年,汤亭亭的自传小说《女勇士》(The Woman Warrior:Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts)出版,震撼了美国文坛,获得该年度“美国国家图书评论界奖”(National Book Critics Circle Award)并被选入各大文学选,成为美国许多中学和大学英文系的必读书目。这部作品的篇首语“你不能把我要讲给你的话告诉任何人”(“You must not tell anyone what I am about to tell you”)已成了美国大学生的口头禅。汤亭亭现为专职作家和美国加州大学伯克利分校荣誉教授。 About the author Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California, a Chinese immigrant family, parents from Guangdong and its neighboring areas of Chinese, his father went to the United States before the private school teacher, his mother in Guangdong A medical school to study obstetrics and gynecology. In 1962, Kingston graduated from the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s degree in literature. In the same year, he married Earll Kingston, an educator, and wrote literary works. In 1976, Maxine’s autobiographical novel The Woman Warrior: The Memoirs of a Girlhood in Ghosts was published, shocking the American literary world and winning the title of “National Book Critics Circle Award” (National Book Critics Circle Award) ) And was selected for major literary selection, becoming the must-read book for many high school and college English departments in the United States. The first sentence of this work “You can not tell anyone what I am about to tell you ” that you can not tell anyone I want to tell you has become a mantra for American college students. Tingting Ting is a full-time writer and honorary professor at the University of California, Berkeley.