Dean Kuipers Explained

Dean Kuipers
Birth Place:Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation:Journalist, writer
Period:1987–present
Genre:Non-fiction
Notableworks:Operation Bite Back
Burning Rainbow Farm
Alma Mater:Kalamazoo College (BA)

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]

Early life and education

Kuipers 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

In 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

As editor and contributor

As contributor

Films

Awards

Notes and References

  1. News: 'Room's Lenny Abrahamson Lights Up FBI Siege Tale 'Burning Rainbow Farm'. Fleming. Mike Jr.. March 22, 2017. Deadline Hollywood. 25 April 2018.
  2. News: 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. 25 April 2018.
  3. Book: BURNING RAINBOW FARM by Dean Kuipers Kirkus Reviews.
  4. News: Rainbow Farm standoff will be made into movie. Combs. Cody. WWMT. 25 April 2018.
  5. Web site: Dean Kuipers HuffPost. HuffPost. 25 April 2018.
  6. News: Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers. July 24, 2009. Grist. 25 April 2018.
  7. News: Nonfiction review: 'Operation Bite Back'. The Oregonian. 25 April 2018.
  8. Web site: Aistars. Zinta. Art Beat: The Deer Camp. 2020-06-27. www.wmuk.org. en.
  9. Book: Kuipers, Dean. The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them. 2019-05-14. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 978-1-63557-349-7. en.
  10. News: Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation. Purdum.. Howard W. French, Michael Wines, Todd S. Purdum and Was Written By Mr.. 25 April 2018.
  11. Web site: 2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners.
  12. Web site: cannabisnews.com: Ashes At The End of Rainbow Farm. cannabisnews.com. 25 April 2018.
  13. News: Killings at 'Rainbow Farm' Revisited. NPR. 25 April 2018.
  14. News: Dean Kuipers . Los Angeles Review of Books. 25 April 2018.
  15. Web site: Greenspace – City of Seattle Blog. 2020-06-27. greenspace.seattle.gov.
  16. Web site: Playboy – April 1993. Playboy The Complete Archive. 25 April 2018.
  17. News: Busting the FBI. Kuipers. Dean. June 19, 2002. L.A. Weekly. 25 April 2018.
  18. Web site: Eco- warrior groups in the U.S.. July 2, 2007. totseans.com. 25 April 2018.
  19. Web site: 2018 results of the Best of the West journalism contest . bestofthewestcontest.org. 25 April 2018.
  20. Web site: Rainbow Farm author visiting Cass library Leader Publications. www.leaderpub.com. 25 April 2018.

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