American author and freelance journalist
Russ Rymer (born May 17, 1952) is an American author and freelance journalist who 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.
His first book, Genie , a Scientific Tragedy (1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award .[ 1] It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, was American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory .[ 2] His third book and first novel, Paris Twilight , was published in 2013.
In 2005, Rymer became the editor-in-chief for Mother Jones ,[ 3] holding the position only one year.[ 4] From 2011 to 2013 Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College .[ 5] He was the 2009-2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University .[ 6] He has been a lecturer in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a visiting professor at the University of California, 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 .
Rymer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. In 2012 he was awarded the Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting from abroad by the Overseas Press Club [ 7] for his National Geographic report on the disappearance of languages.[ 8] He is married to the writer Susan Faludi .[ 9]
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^ "Winners of Whiting Awards ". New York Times , October 30, 1995. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.
^ "A detour turned into a real find ". Florida Times-Union , November 4, 1998. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.
^ "Russ Rymer Named Mother Jones' Editor-in-Chief | Mother Jones" . Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015 .
^ "Eat The Press | BREAKING: Mother Jones Editor Russ Rymer Fired | The Huffington Post" . Huffington Post . Archived from the original on August 22, 2015.
^ Smith College . "Faculty & Staff: Russ Rymer" . Retrieved on July 17, 2013. Archived October 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. "Russ Rymer - 2009-2010" . Retrieved on July 17, 2013.
^ "10 the ed Cunningham Award 2012" .
^ "Vanishing Languages - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine" . Archived from the original on June 18, 2012.
^ 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 .
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