Haven Kimmel
Raleigh, NC 27695, United States
Haven Kimmel attended North Carolina State University, where she studied with novelist Lee Smith.
228 College Ave, Richmond, IN 47374, United States
Haven Kimmel attended Earlham School of Religion.
2000 W University Ave, Muncie, IN 47306, United States
Haven Kimmel studied at Ball State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing.
2019
Jeff Giles, Ben Loehnen, Haven Kimmel.
9500 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, United States
Haven Kimmel at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
2019
Jeff Giles, Ben Loehnen, Haven Kimmel.
2000 W University Ave, Muncie, IN 47306, United States
Haven Kimmel studied at Ball State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing.
Raleigh, NC 27695, United States
Haven Kimmel attended North Carolina State University, where she studied with novelist Lee Smith.
228 College Ave, Richmond, IN 47374, United States
Haven Kimmel attended Earlham School of Religion.
Haven Kimmel
9500 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, United States
Haven Kimmel at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Haven Kimmel as a child with her father.
(When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, w...)
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767915054/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana after w...)
Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult if not impossible people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033349/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife wh...)
A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife who decide to give him a name and a home, but not so happy when they chain him to the barn. All Orville can do is bark to tell the world how unhappy he is, and the more he barks, the more he is left alone. But everything changes when Sally MacIntosh moves into the little house across the road and Orville falls in love. A beautifully crafted text that blends wry humor with the poignant twang of a country-and-western song is accompanied by dreamy, spare watercolor-and-ink illustrations for a fresh, original picture book that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lonely or misunderstood.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061815955X/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, poo...)
When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, pool hustler Cassie Claiborne is forced into a position of abandoning her own dreams to take care of her distant mother and fragile older sister, until, at the age of thirty, she comes up with a way to redeem her life. By the author of The Solace of Leaving Early.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743247752/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Zippy is growing up and struggling with both her hair and...)
Zippy is growing up and struggling with both her hair and her distaste for shoes. But this memoir strikes a deeper and more emotional chord, as now Kimmel shines the spotlight on her remarkable mother, Delonda. Courageous and steadfast, Delonda finally realized that she could change her life, and she got up off the funky couch in the den, bought a beat-up flower power VW bug, and went back to school, which gave her the chance to gain both financial independence and, at long last, self-respect. A true pleasure for old fans and new ones alike, She Got Up Off the Couch is a gorgeous encapsulation of an innocent time when a child didn't understand that her mother was depressed or felt stifled, but just noted on her way out the door that Delonda was a fixture in the living room.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074328500X/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Hazel Hunnicutt's Used World Emporium is a sprawling anti...)
Hazel Hunnicutt's Used World Emporium is a sprawling antique store that is "the station at the end of the line for objects that sometimes appeared tricked into visiting there." Hazel, the proprietor, is in her sixties, and it's a toss-up as to whether she's more attached to her mother or her cats. She's also increasingly attached to her two employees: Claudia Modjeski freakishly tall, forty-odd years old who might finally be undone by the extreme loneliness that's dogged her all of her life; and Rebekah Shook, pushing thirty, still living in her fervently religious father's home, and carrying the child of the man who recently broke her heart. The three women struggle separately and together, through relationships, religion, and work to find their place in this world
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W5MI76/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(It’s easy to understand why wiggly Kaline Klattermaster w...)
It’s easy to understand why wiggly Kaline Klattermaster wants to squirm away from his life: Already struggling with his inability to sit still or stay quiet, now his dad is gone and his mom won’t say where. To escape the chaotic world of his mother’s reign, Kaline thinks up a perfect hiding place an imaginary treehouse complete with 100 puppies and two older brothers who give him advice. Like Joey Pigza in Jack Ganto’s bestselling novels, Kaline has ADHD, making him all the more relatable to young readers, who will empathize with and cheer for him as Kaline finds the courage to leave the tree and face the real world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689874030/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(With her astounding intelligence, fierce independence, an...)
With her astounding intelligence, fierce independence, and otherworldly lavender eyes, college senior Trace Pennington makes an indelible impression even as questions about her past and her true identity hover over every page. From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she’s had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. She’s eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an abandoned house, putting herself through college and leading a double life: at school, she is Ianthe Covington, a young woman with no past.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416572953/?tag=2022091-20
2008
Haven Kimmel was born as Haven Koontz in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana. With a population of only a few hundred and boasting three churches and one gas station, the town was small enough for a young girl to explore thoroughly as she grew up, and to come to know all the inhabitants.
Haven studied at Ball State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing. She also attended North Carolina State University, where she studied with novelist Lee Smith. She also attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.
Haven Kimmel made her literary debut in 2001 with her first book, a best-selling memoir titled “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana”. Writing about growing up in her hometown, she provides a loving and comical view of the small town where almost everyone knows everyone else and an observant little girl learns about almost every aspect of a town's life.
Kimmel turned to fiction for her next book “The Solace of Leaving Early” which was published in 2002, but once again focuses on small-town life in the story of Langston Braverman and her return to Haddington, Indiana.
In “Orville: A Dog Story” that came out in 2003, Kimmel writes for a younger audience in the picture-book story about a large, ugly stray dog who is taken in by a farmer and his wife but ends up chained to the barn.
For Kimmel’s second adult novel “Something Rising” that was written in 2004, Kimmel spent many afternoons in a local pool hall conducting research for her story about Cassie Claiborne.
Kimmel also wrote “She Got up off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland” in 2006, “The Used World” in 2007, “Iodine” and “Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House” in 2008.
Haven Kimmel is the contributor to “Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible” in 2004, and “Remarkable Reads: 35 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading” in 2004 and contributor of poetry, as Haven Koontz, to journals, including Hopewell Review, Sycamore Review, Yellow Silk, and Ball State University Forum.
Currently, Haven Kimmel lives and works in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
Haven Kimmel is the author of the №1 New York Times bestselling memoir “A Girl Named Zippy” and nominee for Orange Prize in 2003 for “The Solace of Leaving Early”.
As a poet, Haven received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal agency that supports artists and arts organizations.
(When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, poo...)
2004(With her astounding intelligence, fierce independence, an...)
2008(It’s easy to understand why wiggly Kaline Klattermaster w...)
2008(Hazel Hunnicutt's Used World Emporium is a sprawling anti...)
2007(Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana after w...)
2002(A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife wh...)
2003(When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, w...)
2001(Zippy is growing up and struggling with both her hair and...)
2006
Quotations:
"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?".
"I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls".
"My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also, she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles. He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone".
"I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didn't know anything before I had him, and I haven't learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isn't loving a child is just for show".
"I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says".
Haven Kimmel has been married three times and has two children, Katie from the first marriage and Obidiah from the third one.
