Dean Cycon

Dean Cycon is an author, lawyer, human rights advocate, and social entrepreneur who has lived and worked in over sixty countries. A passionate explorer of culture and history, Dean seeks out unexamined corners that illuminate the human condition. He has previously published Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, which was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Travel Essay by the Independent Publishers Association and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. Finding Home (Hungary, 1945) is his first novel. Dean lives in Western Massachusetts, USA.

Dean has been a host/presenter on two PBS specials, "Coffee-The Drink that Changed America" and "Traveling in the 1907's". He was also a drunken pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean III (he threw up behind Johnny Depp in the penultimate scene...a career was born).