About the Author
Kendall Haven. The only West Point graduate and
only senior oceanographer to become a professional storyteller, Haven has performed for four million. He has
won numerous awards for his story writing and his storytelling and has conducted story writing and storytelling
workshops for 40,000 teachers and librarians and
200,000 students. Haven has published five audiotapes
and twenty-five books, including three award-winning
books on story: Write Right and Get It Write on writing,
and Super Simple Storytelling, on doing, using, and
teaching storytelling. Through this work he has become a
nationally recognized expert on the architecture of narratives and on teaching creative and expository writing.
Haven served on the National Storytelling Association’s Board of Directors and founded the International
Whole Language Umbrella’s Storytelling Interest
Group. He served as co-director of the Sonoma and Bay Area Storytelling Festivals, was an
advisor to the Mariposa Storytelling Festival, and is founder of Storytelling Festivals in Las
Vegas, Nevada, and Boise, Idaho. He lives with his wife in the rolling Sonoma County
grape vineyards in rural Northern California.