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 Critic's Circle Award and awarded with the Whiting Writer's Award. Rymer is also author of American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory.
The PBS show had been based on RussRymers book Genie: An Abused Childs Flight From Silence. There are times in a readers life when he or she encounters a character so compelling that the urge to come closer, to inhabit the world of the character, is overwhelming.
But Rymers book is not so much about the horrors of abuse as it is about the forbidden experiment, the millennia-old question of the origin of language, i.e.
Rymer details the extraordinary moment in the study of this question during which Genie seemed to drop, as though out of the blue Southern California sky, into the midst of a revolution in the study of the language question.
RussRymer first came to the writing life as a teenager, when, as a copy boy for the Atlanta Journal, he was occasionally pressganged into reporting stories that broke during the graveyard shift.
Rymer has lectured on topics in creative non-fiction and journalism ethics to classes and forums at a number of colleges, including Columbia University, University of North Florida, University of Southern California, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University, and Sciences Po Paris.
When not writing or editing, Rymer spends his time practicing for his future performance career on the cello, an instrument he took up at the tender age of 47 and on which he is considered an advanced prodigy, if only in years.
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