Michael Kimball (1949 - )

Genre: General Fiction

Kimball, who grew up in Auburn, Mass., moved to Maine in the early 1970s and lives now in Cape Neddick with his wife Glenna. He worked as a stevedore, milk deliverer, elementary school music teacher, and rock musician before Stephen King helped him get his first novel, Firewater Pond, published in 1995. He teaches at the summer Stonecoast Writers' Conference in Maine.

Kimball's works include:

• "The Maineiac Express: The World's Only Maine Comedy Newspaper" (co-author, with Mark Melnicove, 1987/1988),
• Firewater Pond (1985), published thanks to help from fellow Maine author Stephen King,
• Undone (1996), the story of murder and betrayal in a small Maine town.
• Mouth to Mouth (2000/2001), a suspense novel set in fictional Destin, Maine, darker darker and more disturbing than Undone.
• Green Girls (2002), a suspense novel set in Maine.

Plays include:

• Best Enemies, staged in Portsmouth, NH, Oct. 2006
• Santa Come Home, in Grand Junction, Colorado, Nov. 2006
• The Secret to Comedy, in Portland and York, ME, summer 2007, and Portsmouth, NH in fall 2007
• Ghosts of Ocean House, nominated for a 2007 Edgar Award for Best Play, premiered in May 2006 in Portsmouth, NH.

More information on the plays is available on his website.

Kimball also wrote three episodes for the TV show "Monsters" (in 1988, 1989, 1990).

The Maine Sunday Telegram featured Kimball in an April 2000 "Audience" section. A short interview appears in a Jan. 2007 issue of The Wire. Details of Kimball's speaking availability and contact info are online. More info on his books is available through his website.


Last Update: 05/31/2007

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