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Alabama Places and Spaces
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Auburn University
Keith S. Hebert
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Auburn University
University of North Alabama
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Rick Bragg
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Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama
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Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Still Image and Text
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Rick Bragg, who was born on July 26, 1959, in Piedmont, Calhoun County to Charles and Margaret Bundrum Bragg, is a noted journalist, teacher, and writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his work with the New York Times. His most lasting contribution to Alabama letters and Southern literature, is his trilogy of family stories, He believed that they would only be of interest to himself and his family. The books have been bestsellers among people who see themselves and their families in his stories.
Bragg graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1977, went to Jacksonville State University for six months, and was awarded Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship in 1992.
He has worked for the Anniston Star, the Birmingham News, and the New York Times.
The trilogy of books about his family are: All Over But the Shoutin' (1997), Ava's Man (2001), and The Prince of Frogtown (2008). .
He worked with Jessica Lynch (2003) and Jerry Lee Lewis (2014) on their life stories; his journalism was collected into the anthology Somebody Told Me (2000); and his features have been collected into anthology My Southern Journey (2015)..
Rick Bragg teaches courses in literary journalism and feature writing at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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Kingsbury, Pam. Inner Voices, Inner Views: Conversations With Southern Writers, The Enolam Group, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2005, p. 1-5.
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Calhoun County, Alabama; Piedmont, Alabama; Rick Bragg; Alabama Authors
Date
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1959 to the present.
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Photo courtesy of Rick Bragg.
Alabama Authors
Calhoun County Alabama
Piedmont Alabama
Rick Bragg