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.