WATERVILLE — Maxine Hong Kingston, a well-known author, will address the class of 1990 at the 169th commencement of Colby College on Sunday, May 27.

Her first book, “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts,” won the 1976 National Books Critics Award for Non-fiction. Her latest book and first novel is, “Tripmaster Monkey — His Fake Books,” a tour de force on the San Francisco of the 1960s.

Kingston is a native of California and has written for the New Yorker and Iowa Review.

The author will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree and is one of six honorary degree recipients. The others are:

Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University and past president of the American Historical Association; John McCarthy, Charles M. Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University; Neil Welliver, Maine-based landscapist; Frederic M. Wertheimer, president of Common Cause since 1981; and Linda Cozby Wertheimer, political correspondent for National Public Radio.