Jim Knipfel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jim Knipfel
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1965(1965-06-02)
Age	59
Birthplace	Grand Forks
Country	United States
Birth City	North Dakota
Horoscope	Gemini

Jim Knipfel Biography

Jim Knipfel is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on June 2, 1965 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. Knipfel was born on the 2, 1965 , in Grand Forks, North Dakota located on the American air base at which his father was stationed. When he was just a year old, older the Knipfel family relocated from the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin where his father was employed with the U.S. Air Force for several years while his mother held many different jobs. When he was in his teens the family discovered he had a genetic disorder known as retinitis pigmentosa. This will gradually make blind over time. The first book he wrote, Slackjaw, chronicles the decline in his eyesight.

In the year 1990, Knipfel moved to Brooklyn, New York with his then-wife Laura. The writer continued his week-long “Slackjaw” column for Philadelphia’s Welcomat and attempted to convince an editor from the weekly alternative newspaper New York Press, John Strausbaugh keen on publishing “Slackjaw”, but the Press was not keen to publish the column alongside the Welcomat. Knipfel retained “Slackjaw” at the Welcomat in the loyalty of the editor, Derek Davis, but he began contributing occasional reviews of music and other articles to the New York Press;

At first Knipfel was dead set against writing a memoir, and was “content to publish in small publications” and was quite “happy with the sheer disposability of newspaper writing”, however, when Penguin Putnam editor David Groff offered him a book deal in 1997, after a decade of writing his column for New York Press, he accepted, rationalizing “that maybe there wasn’t anything all that wrong with leaving something a little more solid behind”. The first draft of Slackjaw was completed in two weeks and at 500 pages long it was largely a collection of several dozen independent stories drawn from his columns. Although Knipfel could not discern a greater theme in the first draft, his editor pointed out that the memoir generally chronicled his journey towards blindness. With this theme in mind, Knipfel rewrote several drafts of Slackjaw, “looking at the stories in a different way and trying to find something that flows and has a rhythm”, which finally produced a leaner memoir of which 60% of the content was fresh.

After Slackjaw, Knipfel wrote two additional memoirs, Quitting the Nairobi Trio (2000) and Ruining It for Everybody (2004). In contrast to his first book tour, Knipfel remained in New York City to promote Quitting the Nairobi Trio, a chronicle of the six months he spent in a locked psychiatric ward in Minneapolis following his last suicide attempt. Critics were largely impressed with Knipfel’s second memoir, although there was one recurrent caveat: the chapters containing descriptions of Knipfel’s personal hallucinations while at the ward did not work. Ellen Clegg in The Boston Globe believed that while personal hallucinations are “important to the beholder [they] don’t always translate in the wider world” and Daphne Merkin in The New York Times expressed how her interest flagged “only when [Knipfel] went into lengthy descriptions of his wearyingly vivid dreams”. In the introduction to Quitting the Nairobi Trio, Knipfel explains that although he has had hallucinations in the past, “they’ve always faded in time”, and yet the hallucinatory events of those first few days, as he settled into the psychiatric ward, are easier for him to recall than very recent events, because these hallucinations mysteriously have “a tenacity and clarity unattributable to any simple unconscious reaction in the brain’s biochemistry”.

He wrote the long-running and well-known “Slackjaw” column for the Press. The first issue of “Slackjaw” appeared on October 25, 1987 in Welcomat The Welcomat is a Philadelphia weekly (now named The Philadelphia Weekly) and in which Knipfel also reviewed eateries and art exhibitions. “Slackjaw”, a cynical and misanthropic view of every day life, has garnered Knipfel a small , but loyal readership.

Jim Knipfel Net Worth

Jim Knipfel is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Knipfel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel; born on June 2nd 1965) is an American autobiography, novelist and journalist.

He briefly did physics during his time at The University of Chicago, and after that he transferred to University of Wisconsin, Madison where he earned a degree in philosophy. In 1987, Knipfel along with a fellow student nicknamed Grinch created a campus-based political group called”the Nihilist Workers Party they put together a flyer promoting “telephone terrorism” that was published in the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s student The Daily Cardinal. The Daily Cardinal without their permission. The prank received an appearance on the cover of Time magazine in 1987.

In 1993, after Davis was pushed out by Welcomat management, Knipfel moved Slackjaw to the New York Press. Shortly thereafter Knipfel became a receptionist at the paper’s offices, and later a full-time columnist and staff writer.

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A few years after his third memoir was published, Knipfel stated in a 2007 interview with Leonard Lopate that he was finished writing memoirs, and instead would concentrate on fiction. His sentiment on his memoirs was: “I had three of them out before I was forty, and I think that’s just asinine.”

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