Russ Rymer

{{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, a Scientific Tragedy (1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award."[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. 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."[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. His third book and first novel, Paris Twilight, was published in 2013.

In 2005, Rymer became the editor-in-chief for Mother Jones,{{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 | 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 }} holding the position only one year.{{cite news |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/08/03/breaking-mother-jone_e_26459.html |title=Eat The Press {{!}} BREAKING: Mother Jones 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}} From 2011 to 2013 Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College.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 }} He was the 2009-2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. [http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/russ-rymer "Russ Rymer - 2009-2010"]. Retrieved on July 17, 2013. 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{{Cite web|url=https://opcofamerica.org/awards/10-ed-cunningham-award|title=10 the ed Cunningham Award 2012}} for his National Geographic report on the disappearance of languages.{{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}} He is married to the writer Susan Faludi.{{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}}