Columnist
Dan Whipple
Lives with his wife, Kathy Bogan, their two sons, three dogs, one three-legged cat -- the most expensive free cat ever foisted off on an innocent family -- and five guitars in Broomfield, Colorado. He is teaching himself to draw.
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Dan Whipple moved to Wyoming in 1976 from Washington, D.C., for all of the usual embarrassing romantic reasons: the fruited plain, cowboys, cattle and starry skies above, purple mountains majesty, hiking, skiing and canoeing, lions, tigers and bears. Well, bears, anyway. He went to work for the biweekly journal High Country News in Lander, Wyoming when “environmentalist” was the most vicious insult that could be hurled at a person. Whipple did little to little to improve the reputation of that species during his tenure at HCN. He then worked as a correspondent for Business Week magazine in Houston, Texas. He could have stood Business Week, or he could have stood Houston, but he couldn’t stand them both at once, so he left after year. In 1984, he and Don Snow started Northern Lights, an environmental, public policy and literary magazine based in Missoula. Whipple left after four-and-a-half years over “editorial differences” (make of that what you will), but the magazine itself survived into the 21st century. He then went to work for eight years at the Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune, doing a little of everything in the way of reporting and editing, and serving as the paper’s science and environment reporter. For the last eleven years, Whipple has been a freelance writer. His mystery novel, Click, was published in 2001 by the University Press of Colorado. It was a Rocky Mountain News “best book” of the year, and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in 2002 which, alas, it didn’t win. In addition to his writing career, Whipple has worked as ersatz cowboy, political organizer, musician, economist, Peace Corps volunteer and construction worker. It is all part of the adventure. He lives in Broomfield, Colorado with his wife, Kathy Bogan, and their two sons, Jake, 19 -- currently at college -- and Carl, 17.
