Titles on list
1
Total weeks
10
Peak rank
#4
Biography
- Born
- October 27, 1940 · Stockton
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- American English, English
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley, Edison High School
Awards & Honours
- 1976National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
- 1978Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
- 1981National Book Award
- 1982Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1997National Humanities Medal
- 1998Dos Passos Prize
- 2006Asian American Literary Awards
- 2008Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
- 2013National Medal of Arts
- honorary doctor of Brandeis University
On the Bestseller Lists
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