Russ Rymer is an author and freelance journalist with articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and others. His first book, Genie, a Scientific Tragedy, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and awarded with the Whiting Writers' Award. Rymer is also author of a book about American Beach - American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory (re-subtitled American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power for the paperback edition).
His books center around the subjects of American Beach, Florida and the Lewis-Betsch family - specifically Abraham Lincoln Lewis and MaVynee Betsch.
From 2005 to 2006 Rymer served as editor-in-chief of Mother Jones.
See also
External links
July 2005 biography from Mother Jones Radio
  |
This article about a United States journalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
