Jim Linderman
American artist and writer
Jim Linderman (born 1953) is an American popular culture writer, collector and visual artist. Linderman has written a number of books, some self-published, has written articles for collecting magazines. He maintains three personal blogs on the subject of little-known artists and art, based on material from his collections of vintage photographs and ephemera.
Early life and education
Linderman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His family moved to the nearby town of Grand Haven, Michigan when he was nine years old. He was editor of his high school paper as well as a local underground magazine. As a young man he read the works of Beat writers of the 1950s and fugitive radical publications of the 1960s.
Linderman graduated Grand Haven High School in 1971; he undertook a sociology degree at Central Michigan University, graduating in 1975. Linderman obtained his master's degree in library science from Western Michigan University, graduating in 1978.
Career
Linderman spent several years in Kalamazoo, Michigan working as a research librarian.
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