Doug Fine Biography

After being raised on Domino's Pizza and Brady Bunch re-runs Doug Fine's method of journalistic investigation was to strap on a backpack and travel to five continents; to the nooks where the world's then-monied media venues weren't sending their people. The deciders at these venues tended to be delighted to have a whippersnapper beam back colorful dispatches for poorly-remunerated publication as long as he didn't identify himself as an employee of said venues. Complicated insurance ramifications for torture treatment might ensue.
As a young freelancer Fine reported in this manner for the Washington Post Salon U.S. News and World Report Sierra Wired Outside National Public Radio and other venues from little-visited jungle war zones like Burma Rwanda Laos Guatemala and Tajikistan. He became a world-class adventure writer and investigative journalist writing culturally insightful and funny dispatches. One of these about democracy efforts in Burma was read into the U.S. Congressional Record.
During this time his 20s Fine recognized that he lived on an actual planet and that he felt most alive while living and loving in wild ecosystems. Following this impulse in contradiction to all the suburban values with which he was raised (which can be summarized as if youre not going to be a doctor you can at least be a lawyer) he moved to extreme rural Alaska to see if a former suburbanite could survive away from Costco. Happiness and self-awareness were the goals. This resulted in his award-nominated first book Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man a wildly humorous and meaningful adventure narrative which is now in its third printing.

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