Russ Rymer
Russ Rymer (born May 17, 1952)[citation needed] is an American author and freelance journalist. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's, Smithsonian, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, and other publications.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Career
[edit]His first book, Genie, a Scientific Tragedy (1993, also called Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and won a Whiting Award.[7][8] It was adapted into a Nova documentary TV episode.[9] His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, is called American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory.[10] His third book and first novel, Paris Twilight, was published in 2013.[11][6]
In 2005, Rymer became the editor-in-chief for Mother Jones,[12] holding the position for one year.[13] From 2011 to 2013[citation needed] Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College.[14] He was the 2009–2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[1] He has taught science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the California Institute of Technology,[1] and St. Mary's College of California.[citation needed]
Rymer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002.[1] In 2012 he was awarded the Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting from abroad by the Overseas Press Club for his National Geographic report on the disappearance of languages, alongside photographer Lynn Johnson.[15][16]
Personal life
[edit]He is married to writer Susan Faludi.[17]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Russ Rymer". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Rymer on GOP". Los Angeles Times. August 30, 1996. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ Winfrey, Carey (April 2004). "Rescue Missions". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Susi Billingsley/Russ Rymer". Vogue. October 1994. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Russ Rymer, Author at LAmag". LAmag. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- 1 2 "Russ Rymer". Whiting Foundation. Retrieved June 18, 2026.
- ↑ "1993". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Winners of Whiting Awards". The New York Times. October 30, 1995. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "NOVA | Transcripts | Secret of the Wild Child". PBS. March 4, 1997. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory by Russ Rymer". Publishers Weekly. November 2, 1998. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ Bellot, Gabrielle (October 31, 2014). "Paris Twilight / Russ Rymer". Southeast Review. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Russ Rymer Named Mother Jones' Editor-in-Chief". Mother Jones. January 13, 2005. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ "BREAKING: Mother Jones Editor Russ Rymer Fired". HuffPost. August 3, 2006. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Russ Rymer". Smith College. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012.
- ↑ "The Ed Cunningham Award 2012". OPC of America. April 24, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Vanishing Voices". Magazine. July 1, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2026.
- ↑ Brown, Patricia Leigh (October 21, 1999). "AT HOME WITH: Susan Faludi and Russ Rymer; Sympathy for Men, Empathy With One". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2023.