Michael Kimball
| Michael Kimball | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1, 1967 Lansing, Michigan |
| Residence | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Years active | 2000 - present |
| Website | http://www.michael-kimball.com |
Michael Kimball (born February 1, 1967) is a novelist from United States.
Michael Kimball was born February 1, 1967 in Lansing, Michigan. He studied at Michigan State University and New York University, and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kimball is a founding editor of Taint Magazine, He is the author of The Way the Family Got Away (2000); How Much of Us There Was (2005), released in the U.S. as Us (2011); Dear Everybody (2008); and Big Ray (2012). He has also published the book Words (2010) under the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine. Kimball's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.
Kimball is the recipient of a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize.
His short fiction has also appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Open City, Prairie Schooner, Post Road and Gigantic (magazine). Sam Lipsyte (author of Home Land, The Subject Steve, and Venus Drive) calls Kimball "a hero of contemporary fiction."
Kimball is responsible for a collaborative art project, "Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard)", which he performs at festivals; the project was covered in The Guardian. Kimball was also featured on NPR's All Things Considered.
Working with Luca Dipierro, Kimball produced two documentaries, I Will Smash You (2009) and 60 Writers/60 Places (2010).
Big Ray was published in 2012. Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, says Michael Kimball has been writing innovative, compelling and beautifully felt books for years, but Big Ray seems a break-through and culmination all at once. It's funny and terrifying and it's his masterpiece, at least so far.” Jon McGregor, author of This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, calls Big Ray “An uncompromising work of power and grace. I finished reading it a week ago, but I still can't put it down."
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