Does anyone know if The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is still considered a memoir/autobiography?

Question

Is "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston still considered a memoir/autobiography? Is it still considered nonfiction? Please cite your sources. Thanks.

Answer 1

According to the introduction by Mary Gordon,it is a novel-like memoir since her family had long emigrated to live in the USA, Ms Kingston herself was born in Stockton, California. Her parents were those among first-generation Chinese immigrants, she had to study and work hard to make it as a famed writer and lecturer at Berkeley and Harvard.
Note: The introduction is from a hardcover "The Woman Warrior/ China Men" published by Alfred A. Knopf in the Everyman's Library.