Russ Rymer (born May 17, 1952) is an American author and freelance journalist who has contributed articles to the ''
New York Times
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'', the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'', ''National Geographic'', ''Harper's'', ''Smithsonian'', ''Vogue'', and ''Los Angeles Magazine'', among other publications. His first book, ''
Genie
Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources)
– are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic m ...
, a Scientific Tragedy'' (HarperCollins, 1993), was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle
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Award and won a
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
. It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the
American Beach
American Beach is a historic beach community in northeastern Florida once popular with African-American vacationers. It is located north of Jacksonville on Amelia Island in Nassau County. During the time of segregation and the Jim Crow era, A ...
community in Florida, was ''American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory'' (HarperCollins, 1998, re-subtitled ''American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power'' for the paperback edition). His third book and first novel, ''Paris Twilight'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013.
In 2005, Russ Rymer became the editor-in-chief for ''
Mother Jones'', although he held this position for only one year. From 2011 to '13 Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College. He was the 2009-10 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has been a lecturer in Writing and Humanistic Studies and at the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT, a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, instructor at the California Institute of Technology, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation appointed Rymer a
Guggenheim Fellow
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in 2002. 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. He is married to the writer
Susan Faludi
Susan Charlotte Faludi (; born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitze ...
.
["AT HOME WITH: Susan Faludi and Russ Rymer; Sympathy for Men, Empathy With One" - https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/garden/at-home-with-susan-faludi-and-russ-rymer-sympathy-for-men-empathy-with-one.html?pagewanted=all]
See also
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Genie (feral child)
Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. When she was ...
References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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Living people
1952 births