# Russ Rymer > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Russ_Rymer > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Russ_Rymer.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Rymer > Source revision: 1356860582 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Russ Rymer** (born May 17, 1952) is an American author and freelance journalist who has contributed articles to the *[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)*, the *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*, *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*, *[National Geographic](/source/National_Geographic)*, *[Harper's](/source/Harper's)*, *[Smithsonian](/source/Smithsonian_Magazine)*, *[Vogue](/source/Vogue_(magazine))*, *[Los Angeles Magazine](/source/Los_Angeles_Magazine)*, and other publications. His first book, *[Genie](/source/Genie_(feral_child)), a Scientific Tragedy* (1993), was a finalist for the [National Book Critics Circle Award](/source/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award) and won a [Whiting Award](/source/Whiting_Awards).[1] It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the [American Beach](/source/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](/source/Mother_Jones_(magazine))*,[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](/source/Smith_College).[5] He was the 2009-2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the [Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study](/source/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute) at [Harvard University](/source/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](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology), a visiting professor at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California,_Berkeley)'s [Graduate School of Journalism](/source/UC_Berkeley_Graduate_School_of_Journalism), instructor at the [California Institute of Technology](/source/California_Institute_of_Technology), and Distinguished Writer in Residence at [St. Mary's College](/source/Saint_Mary's_College_of_California) in [Moraga, California](/source/Moraga,_California). Rymer was a [Guggenheim Fellow](/source/Guggenheim_Fellow) in 2002. In 2012 he was awarded the Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting from abroad by the [Overseas Press Club](/source/Overseas_Press_Club)[7] for his *[National Geographic](/source/National_Geographic)* report on the disappearance of languages.[8] He is married to the writer [Susan Faludi](/source/Susan_Faludi).[9] ## See also - [Genie (feral child)](/source/Genie_(feral_child)) ## References 1. "[Winners of Whiting Awards](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/30/books/winners-of-whiting-awards.html)". *[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)*, October 30, 1995. Retrieved on July 17, 2013. 1. "[A detour turned into a real find](http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110498/new_allCity_.html)". *[Florida Times-Union](/source/Florida_Times-Union)*, November 4, 1998. Retrieved on July 17, 2013. 1. ["Russ Rymer Named Mother Jones' Editor-in-Chief | Mother Jones"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150925063900/http://mediakit.motherjones.com/about/press/russ-rymer-named-mother-jones-editor-chief). Archived from [the original](http://mediakit.motherjones.com/about/press/russ-rymer-named-mother-jones-editor-chief) on September 25, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015. 1. ["Eat The Press | BREAKING: *Mother Jones* Editor Russ Rymer Fired | The Huffington Post"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150822030838/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/03/breaking-mother-jone_e_26459.html). *Huffington Post*. Archived from [the original](https://huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/03/breaking-mother-jone_e_26459.html) on August 22, 2015. 1. [Smith College](/source/Smith_College). ["Faculty & Staff: Russ Rymer"](http://www.smith.edu/english/faculty_rymer.php). Retrieved on July 17, 2013. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121016214445/http://www.smith.edu/english/faculty_rymer.php) October 16, 2012 at the Wayback Machine 1. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. ["Russ Rymer - 2009-2010"](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/russ-rymer). Retrieved on July 17, 2013. 1. ["10 the ed Cunningham Award 2012"](https://opcofamerica.org/awards/10-ed-cunningham-award) 1. ["Vanishing Languages - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120618212929/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text). Archived from [the original](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text) on June 18, 2012. 1. Brown, Patricia Leigh (October 21, 1999). ["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). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved February 3, 2023. ## External links - [Official website](https://www.russrymer.com/) - [Profile at The Whiting Foundation](http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/russ-rymer#/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Russ Rymer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Rymer) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Rymer?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.