"She has a wonderful wit. She's describing what's happening to her but it's playful," Ulrich said.
Ulrich also said Kingston's ability to critically examine her own writing process was valuable.
"If you're really serious about writing as a craft, it's really fun to see someone work through their process," Ulrich said.
Victoria S. Chang '03, a biology concentrator who said she first read one of Kingston's books in one of Ulrich's classes, said the reading could not be neatly categorized.
"She said it was poetry and prose, but she really melded it together," she said.
Kingston's final talk, entitled "Spring Harvest," takes place today at 4 p.m. in Science Center C.
Kingston has had her main successes in prose writing. Her 1976 book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction that year. The novel dealt with the challenge of growing up with American and Chinese culture. China Men, published in 1979, received the National Book Award.
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