14 Facts About Dan Rattiner

Dan Rattiner was born on August 15,1939 and is an American journalist and newspaper publisher.

Dan Rattiner graduated from the University of Rochester with a B A English and attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design between 1961 and 1964.

Dan Rattiner taught Creative Journalistic writing at the Long Island University Southampton campus from 1978 to 1979.

In 1964, Dan Rattiner worked in the City Room of the New York Times.

In 1965, Dan Rattiner co-founded the Manhattan-based underground newspaper The East Village Other with Walter Bowart, Allan Katzman, and John Wilcock.

Dan Rattiner hosted a weekly radio show, The Hamptons Report, on WQXR for six years during the 1990s.

Dan Rattiner writes more than 300 articles a year on topics including science, humor, sports, world affairs, architecture, history, and scandal.

In 2011, Rattiner was among the defendants in a libel and defamation suit against the New Yorker magazine and others for a 2010 article in Dan's Papers, partly based on the New Yorker article.

Dan Rattiner has written 12 books, including the memoir In The Hamptons: My Fifty Years With Farmers, Fishermen, Writers, Artists, Billionaires and Celebrities, published by Random House in 2008 with an introduction by Edward Albee.

Dan Rattiner's art depicted the East End of Long Island, both its landscape and people ranging from "farmers, movie stars, fishermen and Wall Streeters," as well as broader cultural themes.

Dan Rattiner had his first formal exhibition when he had two solos shows at the Ferregut Tower Gallery in Southampton, NY in 2007.

Dan Rattiner has shown his work at Winter Tree Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York.

Dan Rattiner has a speaking role in the movie Cyclops, produced by Roger Corman and starring Eric Roberts.

Dan Rattiner is father to four children from his three previous marriages.