RUSS RYMER

'Russ Rymer' is a book author and freelance journalist with articles on 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 two books about American Beach - ''American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory'' and ''American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power''.
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 magazine. He now lives with fellow author Susan Faludi.

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★ Genie (feral child)