Haven Kimmel

Haven Kimmel

Haven Kimmel (born 1965) is an American author, novelist, and poet.

Biography

Haven Kimmel was born in New Castle, Indiana, and was raised in Mooreland, Indiana, the focus of her bestselling memoir, "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" (2001).

Kimmel earned her undergraduate degree in English and creative writing from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and a graduate degree from North Carolina State University, where she studied with novelist Lee Smith. She also attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Haven Kimmel was a poet prior to writing a memoir of her early childhood. "The Solace of Leaving Early" (2002) and "Something Rising (Light and Swift)" (2004) are the first two novels in Kimmel's "trilogy of place" about fictional Hopwood County, Indiana. The third book, released in September 2007, is titled "The Used World". Her other works include a second memoir, "She Got Up Off the Couch" (2005), a poetic children's book, "Orville: A Dog Story" (2003), and a retelling of the Book of Revelation in "Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible" (2004), edited by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet (ISBN 0-7432-3276-3).

Works

* 2001 , memoir (ISBN 0-385-49982-5)
* 2002 The Solace of Leaving Early, novel (ISBN 0-385-49983-3)
* 2003 , children’s book (ISBN 0-618-15955-X)
* 2004 Something Rising (Light and Swift), novel (ISBN 0-7432-4775-2)
* 2005 She Got Up Off the Couch, and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, memoir (ISBN 0-7432-8499-2)
* 2007 The Used World, novel (ISBN 0-7432-4778-7)
* 2008 Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House , children’s book (ISBN 978-0-689-87402-4)
* 2008 Iodine, novel (ISBN 978-1-416-57284-8)

Quotes

* The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it. (From "A Girl Named Zippy", p. 2.)

* Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin? (From "The Solace of Leaving Early", p. 40.)

* Orville barked and barked against his chain. And right in the middle of a long summer day, when he had barked about how he was really a good dog in a bad mood, and how he missed that one-eyed doll, and how there was something so terrible about the feeling of a chain against a neck, everything changed, because a girl with cotton-candy hair moved into the little house across the road and Orville fell in love. (From "Orville: A Dog Story", p. 18.)

* "It's marriage, family, home, sentimentality, continuity, these are the lies that eat women like a machine." [...] "A Woman-Chipper, can you imagine how that would sell? Everyone, anywhere on the political spectrum, would want one." (From "Something Rising (Light and Swift)", p. 126.)

* "She had done all these things and she was going to graduate summa cum laude, which meant Good But Loud, from the Honors College, and she had done it all in twenty-three months. It takes some people more time to hang a curtain." "She Got Up Off the Couch", p. 189.)

* "Once she had been thought dear, a treasure, the little red-haired Holiness girl whose laughter sparkled like light on a lake; now she stood outside the gates of her father's Prophecy, asleep inside his house. Her hair tumbled across her pillow and over the edge of the bed: a flame. [...] It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." (From "The Used World", pp. 2-3.)

* "Do Not Walk On Grass!" (From "Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House", p. 1.)

* She drifted; fell into the horizon dream, which was sometimes a comfort and sometimes disconcerting. That's all the dream was: an endless horizon, everywhere she turned, no ground beneath her feet, no sky above. A line where two concepts either met or parted ways. No sun rose, no moon. The Horae were the seasons and their names signified time ("heure"): Lachesis, experience, or the accident in destiny. Clotho the inborn disposition. And Atropos, the ineluctable, Death Herself. Ianthe dreamed warm, the horizon did not alter, she thought of Weeds, and of the dark freezing house down the lane that no one could see. Colt never entered her mind. (From "Iodine", p 150.)

External links

* [http://www.havenkimmel.com Author’s official web site]
* [http://www.PurityOfHeart.org Purity of Heart, A Haven Kimmel Fan Site]
* [http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/K/Kimmel,_Haven/ Open Directory category]


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