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Rick Bragg, author of the
critically acclaimed and best-selling
All Over but the Shoutin' and a Pulitzer Prize-winning
national correspondent for the New York Times, was born and
raised in Northern Alabama.
Always one to love a good story, Bragg worked on several local papers
before moving to California to work briefly for the Los Angeles Times.
He then went on to work for the St. Petersburg's Times.
In 1992 he was
awarded a Neiman Fellowship at
Harvard University—a mid-career fellowship for “working journalists of
accomplishment and promise”. Long before his one-year fellowship at
Harvard, Bragg attended Jacksonville State University in
Alabama
for a short time in the 1970's.
In 1994, Bragg joined
the New York Times. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
feature writing and also won the American Society of Newspaper Editor's
Distinguished Writing Award.
In 1996 he
received a contract for his first book,
All Over But The Shoutin'. The book earned him numerous awards
and made the New York Times Bestseller list. Bragg
also authored the critically acclaimed collection of newspaper stories,
Somebody Told Me and a deep south favorite,
Ava’s Man.
In
2003
Bragg was suspended from the New York Times for his defense of
using interns and stringers in news reporting. He chose, instead, to
resign.
Bragg continues to write books giving voice to the working people of the
South. He is also a roving correspondent and he is based in New
Orleans.
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