Rudy Abramson

Journalist and author Rudy Abramson was a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times for more than 25 years, during which time he served as national science correspondent, Pentagon correspondent, and White House correspondent. His major assignments included the U.S. space program, arms control policy, national political campaigns, the Watergate investigation, and environmental issues. Abramson is the author of Spanning the Century, the Life of W. Averell Harriman and Hallowed Ground, Preserving America's Heritage. He has written for Smithsonian Magazine, Audubon Magazine, Astronautics and Aeronautics Magazine, Encyclopedia Britannica, the New York Times Book Review, and Appalachia. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Abramson attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as a Sloan-Rockefeller Fellow in Advanced Science Writing. He has also received a Mary and Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship. He is a native of Florence, Alabama.