Dean Kuipers

Dean Kuipers
Occupation Journalist, writer
Nationality American
Period 1987-present
Genre Non-fiction
Notable works Operation Bite Back
Burning Rainbow Farm
Website
www.deankuipersonline.com

Dean Kuipers 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 in the Air Force. He grew up in rural Southwest Michigan in a family deeply involved with hunting, fishing, farming and outdoor life, which inspired his ecological consciousness 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 Magazine in 1989. He also reported on local politics, and he and a girlfriend were beaten by police while he was covering the 1988 Tompkins Square Park Riots.[8]

In 1994, Kuipers moved to Los Angeles to work for Ray Gun Magazine, 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 Los Angeles CityBeat in 2004.[9] His non-fiction book Burning Rainbow Farm tells the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, Michigan pot activists who were killed by the FBI and state police during a standoff in 2001.[10] [11]He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 as a digital edition editor, then worked as a music editor and ran the Greenspace blog.[12] 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.[13][14][15]

Selected work

  • Kuipers, Dean; Aitken, Doug (2000). I Am a Bullet : Scenes from an Accelerating Culture. Crown; 1st edition. ISBN 0609604090.
  • Kuipers, Dean (2006). Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1596911425.
  • Kuipers, Dean (2009). Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1596914580.

As editor and contributor

  • Kuipers, Dean. Ray Gun: Out of Control. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684839806.
  • I am Iman. Universe Publishing. 2001. ISBN 9780789306333.

As contributor

  • Aitken, Doug (1998). Douglas Aitken Diamond Sea. Book Works, London. ISBN 9781870699464.
  • Laura, Flanders (2007). The Contenders. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 158322789X.
  • 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

  • True Guardians of the Earth. Documentary directed by Eric Matthies. Warner Bros. 2010.
  • Doug Aitken films Diamond Sea, Bad Animal, These Restless Minds, and Into the Sun. Research, writing and production. 1996-99.

Awards

  • 2018 Best of the West award in business and financial reporting[16]
  • 2007 Michigan Notable Book[17]

References

  1. ↑ Jr, Mike Fleming (2017-03-22). "'Room's Lenny Abrahamson Lights Up FBI Siege Tale 'Burning Rainbow Farm'". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  2. ↑ "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". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  3. ↑ BURNING RAINBOW FARM by Dean Kuipers | Kirkus Reviews.
  4. ↑ Combs, Cody. "Rainbow Farm standoff will be made into movie". WWMT. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  5. ↑ "Dean Kuipers | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  6. ↑ "Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers". Grist. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  7. ↑ "Nonfiction review: 'Operation Bite Back'". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  8. ↑ Purdum., Howard W. French, Michael Wines, Todd S. Purdum and Was Written By Mr. "Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  9. ↑ "2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners" (PDF). line feed character in |title= at position 25 (help)
  10. ↑ "cannabisnews.com: Ashes At The End of Rainbow Farm". cannabisnews.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  11. ↑ "Killings at 'Rainbow Farm' Revisited". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  12. ↑ "Dean Kuipers - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  13. ↑ "Playboy — April 1993". Playboy | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  14. ↑ Kuipers, Dean (2002-06-19). "Busting the FBI". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  15. ↑ "Eco- warrior groups in the U.S." totseans.com. July 2, 2007. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  16. ↑ "2018 results of the Best of the West journalism contest". bestofthewestcontest.org. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  17. ↑ "Rainbow Farm author visiting Cass library | Leader Publications". www.leaderpub.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
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