Russ Rymer is a book author an 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 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.