Dean Kuipers (born March 1964) is an American journalist and author.[1] He is best known for his writing on the environment. His book Burning Rainbow Farm was selected as a 2007 Michigan Notable Book.[2][3][4] His other prominent work includes Operation Bite Back, a non-fiction book about activist Rod Coronado and the use of domestic terrorism charges against environmentalists in the United States.[5][6][7]
Dean Kuipers | |
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| Born | March 1964 (age 60) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Alma mater | Kalamazoo College (BA) |
| Period | 1987–present |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notable works | Operation Bite Back Burning Rainbow Farm |
| Website | |
| www | |
Early life and education
editKuipers was born in the Seattle area, where his father was serving in the United States Air Force.[8] He lived in Marysville, Washington and Everett, Washington before his family relocated to West Michigan.[9] He earned a degree in English from Kalamazoo College in 1987.
Career
editIn 1987 Kuipers moved to New York City to work at Ear Magazine, an avant-garde music publication. He became a staff writer at Spin in 1989. He also reported on local politics, and he and a girlfriend were beaten by police while he was covering the Tompkins Square Park riot in 1988.[10]
In 1994, Kuipers moved to Los Angeles to work for Ray Gun, where he helped launch several other lifestyle titles. He worked with artist Doug Aitken on his 1997 film, Diamond Sea, and other films. He became the founding news editor of alternative newsweekly LA CityBeat in 2004.[11] His non-fiction book Burning Rainbow Farm tells the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, Michigan marijuana activists who were killed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Michigan State Police officers a standoff in 2001.[12][13] He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 as a digital edition editor, then worked as a music editor and ran Greenspace, a blog operated by the city of Seattle.[14][15] He remained with the company until 2012.
His work has also appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Orion, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, LA Weekly, and other publications.[16][17][18]
Selected work
edit- Kuipers, Dean; Aitken, Doug (2000). I Am a Bullet : Scenes from an Accelerating Culture. Crown; 1st edition. ISBN 978-0609604090.
- Kuipers, Dean (2006). Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1596911420.
- Kuipers, Dean (2009). Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1596914582.
As editor and contributor
edit- Kuipers, Dean (1997). Ray Gun: Out of Control. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684839806.
- Kuipers, Dean (2001). I am Iman. Universe Publishing. ISBN 9780789306333.
- Kuipers, Dean (2019). Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-6315-0.
As contributor
edit- Aitken, Doug (1998). Douglas Aitken Diamond Sea. Book Works, London. ISBN 9781870699464.
- Laura, Flanders (2007). The Contenders. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583227893.
- Frank, Joshua (2008). Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. AK Press. ISBN 9781904859840.
- Doug Aitken: SONG 1. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 2012. ISBN 9780978906320
- Signs of Life. Manic D Press, 1994. Jennifer Joseph.
- Acker, Kathy (1991). Black Ice Anthology Number 8.
Films
edit- True Guardians of the Earth, documentary directed by Eric Matthias (2010)
- Doug Aitken films Diamond Sea, Bad Animal, These Restless Minds, and Into the Sun (Research, writing and production) 1996–99
Awards
editReferences
edit- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (March 22, 2017). "'Room's Lenny Abrahamson Lights Up FBI Siege Tale 'Burning Rainbow Farm'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke by Dean Kuipers, Author , Bloomsbury $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-1-59691-142-0". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ BURNING RAINBOW FARM by Dean Kuipers | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Combs, Cody. "Rainbow Farm standoff will be made into movie". WWMT. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Dean Kuipers | HuffPost". HuffPost. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers". Grist. July 24, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Nonfiction review: 'Operation Bite Back'". The Oregonian. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ Aistars, Zinta. "Art Beat: The Deer Camp". www.wmuk.org. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
- ^ Kuipers, Dean (May 14, 2019). The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-63557-349-7.
- ^ Purdum., Howard W. French, Michael Wines, Todd S. Purdum and Was Written By Mr. "Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation". Retrieved April 25, 2018.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners" (PDF).
- ^ "cannabisnews.com: Ashes At The End of Rainbow Farm". cannabisnews.com. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Killings at 'Rainbow Farm' Revisited". NPR. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Dean Kuipers". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Greenspace – City of Seattle Blog". greenspace.seattle.gov. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
- ^ "Playboy – April 1993". Playboy | The Complete Archive. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ Kuipers, Dean (June 19, 2002). "Busting the FBI". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Eco- warrior groups in the U.S." totseans.com. July 2, 2007. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "2018 results of the Best of the West journalism contest |". bestofthewestcontest.org. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Rainbow Farm author visiting Cass library | Leader Publications". www.leaderpub.com. Retrieved April 25, 2018.