Editing Russ Rymer (section)

{{Short description|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 (feral child)|Genie]], a Scientific Tragedy'' (1993), was a finalist for the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] and won a [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]].<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/30/books/winners-of-whiting-awards.html Winners of Whiting Awards]". ''[[New York Times]]'', October 30, 1995. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.</ref> 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''.<ref>"[http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110498/new_allCity_.html A detour turned into a real find]". ''[[Florida Times-Union]]'', November 4, 1998. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.</ref> His third book and first novel, ''Paris Twilight'', was published in 2013.

In 2005, Rymer became the editor-in-chief for ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mediakit.motherjones.com/about/press/russ-rymer-named-mother-jones-editor-chief |title=Russ Rymer Named Mother Jones' Editor-in-Chief &#124; Mother Jones |accessdate=October 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925063900/http://mediakit.motherjones.com/about/press/russ-rymer-named-mother-jones-editor-chief |archivedate=September 25, 2015 }}</ref> holding the position only one year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/03/breaking-mother-jone_e_26459.html |title=Eat The Press {{!}} BREAKING: <em>Mother Jones</em> Editor Russ Rymer Fired {{!}} The Huffington Post |newspaper=Huffington Post |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822030838/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/03/breaking-mother-jone_e_26459.html |archive-date=August 22, 2015}}</ref> From 2011 to 2013 Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at [[Smith College]].<ref>[[Smith College]]. [http://www.smith.edu/english/faculty_rymer.php "Faculty & Staff: Russ Rymer"]. Retrieved on July 17, 2013. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016214445/http://www.smith.edu/english/faculty_rymer.php |date=October 16, 2012 }}</ref> He was the 2009-2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the [[Harvard Radcliffe Institute|Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. [http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/russ-rymer "Russ Rymer - 2009-2010"]. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.</ref> 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 [[UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism]], instructor at the [[California Institute of Technology]], and Distinguished Writer in Residence at [[Saint Mary's College of California|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]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opcofamerica.org/awards/10-ed-cunningham-award|title=10 the ed Cunningham Award 2012}}</ref> for his ''[[National Geographic]]'' report on the disappearance of languages.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120618212929/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text| archive-date = June 18, 2012| title = Vanishing Languages - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine}}</ref> He is married to the writer [[Susan Faludi]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Patricia Leigh |date=October 21, 1999 |title=AT HOME WITH: Susan Faludi and Russ Rymer; Sympathy for Men, Empathy With One |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/garden/at-home-with-susan-faludi-and-russ-rymer-sympathy-for-men-empathy-with-one.html |access-date=February 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>