Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama) won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at "The New York Times". He credits his writing ability to the oral storytelling of family and friends in his childhood in the Appalachian foothills of Alabama. He has written two memoirs. Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the "New York Times" in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, … Wikipedia
But more important than the fact it made the New York Times Best-Seller list, says Bragg, is the fact that the book became an anthem for the working people and poor people of the modern-day South. www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/bragg/
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Rick Bragg is a native of Jacksonville, Ala. Bragg was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow in 1993, and he also attended Jacksonville State University in Alabama. www.ccom.ua.edu/journalism/faculty.html
