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An Incomplete and Uncritical Biography of Andy Devine Michael Kimball

based on characteristics that Rosenthal describes as “word Andy Devine is an enigmatic figure and little is

salad” and “disorganized speech.” Of course, this theory

known about his life or hobbies. We do not know, for

has been dismissed by more recent research on Devine for

instance, when he was born or where he grew up,

the basic reason that all of Devine’s works are, in fact, ex-

whether he was married or not, whether he liked to

tremely organized speech and more of a “word file cabi-

watch baseball on television or had a favorite flavor of

net” than a “word salad” (Kimball, forthcoming). Thus,

ice cream. Many critics suggest, however, that his con-

there is no reason to believe that the author is a person

ceptual fictional works and many alphabetical essays of-

with schizophrenia, though the alphabetical syntax and

fer insight into the life of Andy Devine. It has been ar-

list-like nature of many of Andy Devine’s works may indi-

gued, for instance, that he was born or grew up in

cate that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder

Michigan (or both; Tomlinson, 2004). The Italian critic,

(Barlow, 2005; Comer, 2006).

Stefano DiTrapano (2007), further contends that Andy

Regardless of whether any of these biographical

Devine was raised by his maternal grandparents, in what

details are true or not, it is obvious that Andy Devine’s

was most probably a middle-class or working-class fam-

writings are full of implication and possibility. It is further

ily, and that the family may have run a grocery store―all

known that Devine has published extensively on the sub-

of this conjecture mostly based on the short work “As Day

ject of words―including notable essays concerning

Same That the the Was Year.” Moreover, Granger (2001)

prepositions, adjectives, and adverbial participles. Devine

hypothesizes that there must have been a terrible inci-

is probably most well-known for his essays concerning

dent concerning a baby at some point during Devine’s

diction in fictional works, two separate conceptual works

life―either his younger sibling or his own child (and

that were written in a furious rush before the end of the

probably the loss of said baby). The main basis for this

last century―one essay on words that should be used in

speculation is the short work “A Baby Bigger Grows Than

the writing of fiction and one essay on words that should

Up Was,” though two other works are cited as support,

not be used in the writing of fiction. In 2002, Devine was

“As at Dying in Night the the Us We” and “By Cart Chil-

awarded the 2002 Riddley Walker Prize (for a work that

dren Full Groceries He Is Proposes the to Until with

ignores conventional rules of grammar and punctuation).

Women.”

Other acknowledgments of his remarkable work are the

Concerning the possibility of mental illness,

fact that Andy Devine Avenue (in Kingman, Arizona) is

Rosenthal (2004) put forward the suggestion that Andy

named after him and his mention in a Frank Zappa song

Devine’s writings are a function of his schizophrenia, this

(“Andy”).

15 articles concerning the stories and essays Michael Kimball is the author of several critical of Andy Devine, as well as of three critically acclaimed novels―The Way the Family Got

Away (2000), How Much of Us There Was (2005), and Dear Everybody (2008).