Russ RymerRuss Rymer has taught creative nonfiction at Harvard University, MIT, Bowdoin College, and Smith College, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Radcliffe Institute. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, National Geographic, he New Yorker, and The New York Times, among numerous other publications, and he is the author of Paris Twilight: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 2013), American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory (HarperCollins, 1998) and Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (HarperCollins, 1993), which won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television series. Read More Read Less