{{short description|American journalist and author}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Dean Kuipers | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|March 1964}} | birth_place = [[Seattle, Washington]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Journalist, writer | period = 1987–present | genre = Non-fiction | notableworks = ''[[Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness|Operation Bite Back]]''<br />''Burning Rainbow Farm'' | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = {{URL|www.deankuipersonline.com}} | alma_mater = [[Kalamazoo College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }}
'''Dean Kuipers''' (born March 1964) is an American journalist and author.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/03/lenny-abrahamson-burning-rainbow-farm-fbi-seige-marijuana-farm-tom-crosslin-rollie-rohm-anonymous-content-film-4-1202048716/|title='Room's Lenny Abrahamson Lights Up FBI Siege Tale 'Burning Rainbow Farm'|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=March 22, 2017|publisher=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> He is best known for his writing on the environment. His book ''Burning Rainbow Farm'' was selected as a 2007 Michigan Notable Book.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59691-142-0|title=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|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dean-kuipers/burning-rainbow-farm/|title=BURNING RAINBOW FARM by Dean Kuipers {{!}} Kirkus Reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://wwmt.com/news/local/rainbow-farm-standoff-will-be-made-into-movie|title=Rainbow Farm standoff will be made into movie|last=Combs|first=Cody|publisher=WWMT|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> His other prominent work includes ''[[Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness|Operation Bite Back]]'', a non-fiction book about activist [[Rod Coronado]] and the use of domestic terrorism charges against environmentalists in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/dean-kuipers|title=Dean Kuipers {{!}} HuffPost|website=HuffPost|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://grist.org/article/2009-07-23-terrorism-laws-used-to-round-up-eco-activists-dean-kuipers/|title=Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers|date=July 24, 2009|work=Grist|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/06/nonfiction_review_operation_bi.html|title=Nonfiction review: 'Operation Bite Back'|work=The Oregonian|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Kuipers was born in the [[Seattle]] area, where his father was serving in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aistars|first=Zinta|title=Art Beat: The Deer Camp|url=https://www.wmuk.org/post/art-beat-deer-camp|access-date=2020-06-27|website=www.wmuk.org|language=en}}</ref> He lived in [[Marysville, Washington]] and [[Everett, Washington]] before his family relocated to [[West Michigan]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=142SDwAAQBAJ&q=Dean+Kuipers+born+in+seattle&pg=PT123|title=The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them|date=2019-05-14|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-1-63557-349-7|language=en}}</ref> 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|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 (1988)|Tompkins Square Park riot]] in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/nyregion/melee-in-tompkins-sq-park-violence-and-its-provocation.html|title=Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation|last=Purdum.|first=Howard W. French, Michael Wines, Todd S. Purdum and Was Written By Mr.|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
In 1994, Kuipers moved to [[Los Angeles]] to work for [[Ray Gun (magazine)|''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2007-Southern-California-Journalism-Award-Winners.pdf|title=2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21924.shtml|title=cannabisnews.com: Ashes At The End of Rainbow Farm|website=cannabisnews.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1437385|title=Killings at 'Rainbow Farm' Revisited|publisher=NPR|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dean-kuipers/#!|title=Dean Kuipers |work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Greenspace – City of Seattle Blog|url=https://greenspace.seattle.gov/#sthash.oOEc9KuG.dpbs|access-date=2020-06-27|website=greenspace.seattle.gov}}</ref> He remained with the company until 2012.
His work has also appeared in ''[[Playboy]], [[Rolling Stone]], [[Men's Journal]], [[Orion (online magazine)|Orion]], [[Interview (magazine)|Interview]], [[Travel + Leisure|Travel & Leisure]], [[Outside (magazine)|Outside]], [[LA Weekly]]'', and other publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iplayboy.com/issue/19930401|title=Playboy – April 1993|website=Playboy {{!}} The Complete Archive|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/content/printView/2134939|title=Busting the FBI|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|date=June 19, 2002|work=L.A. Weekly|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://totseans.com/totse/en/politics/green_planet/eco-war.html|title=Eco- warrior groups in the U.S.|date=July 2, 2007|website=totseans.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
==Selected work==
*{{Cite book|title=I Am a Bullet : Scenes from an Accelerating Culture|last1=Kuipers|first1=Dean|last2=Aitken|first2=Doug|publisher=Crown; 1st edition|year=2000|isbn=978-0609604090}} *{{Cite book|title=Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|year=2006|isbn=978-1596911420|url=https://archive.org/details/burningrainbowfa00kuip}} *{{Cite book|title=[[Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness]]|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|year=2009|isbn=978-1596914582}}
===As editor and contributor===
*{{Cite book|title=Ray Gun: Out of Control|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1997|isbn=978-0684839806}} *{{Cite book|title=I am Iman|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|publisher=Universe Publishing|year=2001|isbn=9780789306333}} *{{Cite book|title=Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style|last=Kuipers|first=Dean|publisher=Rizzoli|year=2019|isbn=978-0-8478-6315-0}}
===As contributor===
*{{Cite book|title=Douglas Aitken Diamond Sea|last=Aitken|first=Doug|publisher=Book Works, London|year=1998|isbn=9781870699464}} *{{Cite book|title=The Contenders|last=Laura|first=Flanders|publisher=Seven Stories Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1583227893|url=https://archive.org/details/contenders00flan}} *{{Cite book|title=Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland|last=Frank|first=Joshua|publisher=AK Press|year=2008|isbn=9781904859840}} *Doug Aitken: SONG 1. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 2012. {{ISBN|9780978906320}} *Signs of Life. Manic D Press, 1994. Jennifer Joseph. *{{Cite book|url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/kathy-acker/signed/|title=Black Ice Anthology Number 8|last=Acker|first=Kathy|year=1991}}
===Films=== *''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== *2018 Best of the West award in business and financial reporting<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bestofthewestcontest.org/?page_id=1349|title=2018 results of the Best of the West journalism contest {{!}}|website=bestofthewestcontest.org|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> *2007 Michigan Notable Book<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leaderpub.com/2007/03/28/rainbow-farm-author-visiting-cass-library/|title=Rainbow Farm author visiting Cass library {{!}} Leader Publications|website=www.leaderpub.com|access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
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