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Haven Kimmel was born in New Castle, Indiana, and was raised in Mooreland, Indiana, the focus of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy. She is the other of four other novels, a second memoir and two children’s books.
Kimmel earned her undergraduate degree in English and creative writing from Ball Sate University and attended North Carolina State University as well as the seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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[A hand reaches out
and depresses a knob on a little blue tape recorder. Someone says "glamorous
park bench." Tapping sound. Throat clearing.]
Hello, and welcome to Interview. Let's just go straight to our guest,
author Haven Kimmel, and have her answer a few questions about her book,
A Girl Named Zippy.
You had some unusual experiences in the beginning of your life--a near fatal
staph infection, baldness until almost three, and, most memorably, your
first words at three years old: "I'll make a deal with you." How did this
unusual start affect your life?
I'm of the opinion (I share this with some contemporary literary theorists,
I think) that the word "text" is both broad and deep metaphorically, and
thus we can, without much shame or sense of personal responsibility, litter
our conversation with it. So let's say an individual life is a text; in A
Girl Named Zippy I simply read my life backwards. The person I am now is
essentially that weird little mute bald girl, only taller. And with hair,
obviously. James Hillman, in his book The Soul's Code, proposes the
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