Bestselling author Haven Kimmel, an Indiana native, to speak at Goshen College Oct. 10

 

GOSHEN, Ind. – Haven Kimmel, author of a number one New York Times bestseller and an Indiana native, will speak at Goshen College as part of the S.A. Yoder Lecture Series on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Newcomer Center Room 19. The event is free and open to the public.

Haven Kimmel was raised in Mooreland, Ind., the focus of her bestselling memoirs, "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" (2001) and "She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts From Mooreland, Indiana" (2005).

Kimmel earned her undergraduate degree in English and creative writing from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., 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, Ind. She lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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, Ind. The third book, released in September 2007, is titled "The Used World." Her other works include a poetic children's picture book, "Orville: A Dog Story" (2003), a humorous middle grade book, "Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House" (2008) and the haunting and hallucinatory novel, "Iodine" (2008).

The S.A. Yoder Lecture Series, begun in 1972, honors Dr. Samuel A. Yoder, a professor at Goshen College from 1930 to 1935 and again from 1946 until his death in 1970.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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