October 27: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston, award-winning author of The Woman Warrior, an autobiography about the Chinese-American female experience, was born today in 1940.

Lee Krasner,  an American abstract expressionist painter, was born today in 1908.

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Learn more about the life of Lee Krasner.

*Image of Maxine Hong Kingston via David Shankbone