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  Date / Time: 9/4/2009 6:26 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Best-selling Author Rick Bragg :: Appears on "About the Books"
  

  $0Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians – All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man and The Prince of Frogtown.  Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart-breaking anthems of people usually written about only in fiction or clichés. The chronicle the lives of his family, cotton pickers, mill workers, whiskey makers, long sufferers and fist fighters. Bragg, who has written for the numerous magazines, ranging from Sports Illustrated to Food and Wine, was a newspaper writer for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News, and militant Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times.  He won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, and is, truthfully, still a freshman at Jacksonville State University. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his step-son, Jake. His only real hobby is fishing, but he is the worst fisherman in his family line.$0$0$0$0
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