Question: Russ Rymer is an author and freelance journalist who has contributed numerous articles, his first books' title used which pseudonym for an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation?

 His first book, "Genie, a Scientific Tragedy" (HarperCollins, 1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award. Russ Rymer is an author and freelance journalist who has contributed articles to the "New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", "The New Yorker", National Geographic, Harper’s, Smithsonian, Vogue, and Los Angeles Magazine, among other publications.  It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary.  His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, was "American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory" (Harper Collins, 1998, re-subtitled "American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power" for the paperback edition).  His third book and first novel, "Paris Twilight", was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. <SEP> Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD) is an American nonprofit membership organization that works to stop child abuse and neglect based on religious beliefs, cultural traditions, and quackery.  CHILD opposes religious exemptions from child health and safety laws.  These exemptions have been used as a defense in criminal cases when parents have withheld lifesaving medical care on religious grounds.  These exemptions also have discouraged reporting and investigation of religion-based medical neglect of children and spawned many outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths.  CHILD publicizes the ideological abuse and neglect of children, lobbies for equal protection laws for children, and files lawsuits and amicus curiae briefs in related cases. <SEP>  Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology.  When she was a baby her father concluded that she was severely mentally retarded, a view which intensified as she got older, causing him to dislike her and withhold care and attention.  At approximately the time she reached the age of 20 months he decided to keep her as socially isolated as possible as a result of this belief, so from that time until she reached the age of 13 years and 7 months he kept her locked alone in a room. Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym for an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation.  During this time he almost always kept her strapped to a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her arms and legs completely immobilized, forbade anyone from interacting with her, provided her with almost no stimulation of any kind, and left her severely malnourished.  The extent of her isolation prevented her from being exposed to any significant amount of speech, and as a result she did not acquire language during her childhood.  Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles child welfare authorities on November 4, 1970. <SEP> When the circumstances of Genie, the primary victim in one of the most severe cases of abuse, neglect and social isolation on record in medical literature, first became known in early November 1970, authorities arranged for her admission to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where doctors determined that at the age of 13 years and 7 months she had not acquired a first language.  Hospital staff then began teaching Genie to speak General American English, and she gradually began to learn and use language.  Their efforts soon caught the attention of linguists, who saw her as an important way to gain further insight into acquisition of language skills and linguistic development.  Starting in late May 1971, UCLA professor Victoria Fromkin headed a team of linguists who began a detailed case study on Genie's progress with learning language.  One of Fromkin's graduate students, Susan Curtiss, became especially involved in testing and recording Genie's linguistic development.  Linguists' observations of Genie began that month, and in October of that year they began actively testing what principles of language she had acquired and was acquiring.  Their studies enabled them to publish several academic works examining theories and hypotheses regarding the proposed critical period during which humans learn to understand and use language.