1000 George Douthit Dr SW, Jacksonville, AL 36265, USA
Bragg graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1977.
College/University
Gallery of Rick Bragg
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
In 1992, Bragg was awarded Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship.
Gallery of Rick Bragg
1602, 700 Pelham Rd N, Jacksonville, AL 36265, United States
In 1977, Bragg attended night courses for six months at Jacksonville State University.
Career
Gallery of Rick Bragg
620 Eighth Avenue Manhattan, New York 10018
Bragg was a newspaper writer for The New York Times from 1994 to 2003.
Gallery of Rick Bragg
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Bragg currently works as a writing professor at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College of Communication and Information Sciences.
Bragg currently works as a writing professor at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College of Communication and Information Sciences.
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
(The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of All O...)
The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of All Over but the Shoutin' now takes a look beyond the headlines for extraordinary tales of ordinary people and their life struggles.
(In this final volume of the beloved American saga, Rick B...)
In this final volume of the beloved American saga, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.
(The author writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum,...)
The author writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him.
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
(In this book, the author explores enduring Southern truth...)
In this book, the author explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast.
Rick Bragg is an American journalist, educator and writer known for non-fiction books, especially those about his family in Alabama.
Background
Rick Bragg was born on July 26, 1959, in Piedmont, Alabama, United States. Growing up in the small community of Possum Trot near Jacksonville, in the Appalachian foothills on the border between Alabama and Georgia, Bragg was the second of three sons, a fourth having died in infancy. The family was very poor, surviving on a fifty dollar-per-month Social Security check in addition to what Margaret, his mother, made as a field hand. Bragg’s father, a Korean War veteran who became a physically abusive alcoholic, was rarely present before his death at age forty, and when he was, he often beat Margaret. She withstood mistreatment stoically and bestowed a compensating love on her children, which enabled Bragg to later find success as a writer.
Education
Bragg graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1977 and attended night courses for six months at Jacksonville State University. In 1992, Bragg was also awarded Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship, which provided tuition-free career development education for working journalists.
In 1980, Bragg was hired as a reporter for the Anniston Star. From 1986 to 1989, he worked as a reporter at the Birmingham News. He left in March 1989 for Florida to work for the St. Petersburg Times as a correspondent. His assignments during those years included coverage of Hurricane Andrew, the political and socio-economic turmoil in Haiti, and the riots in Miami. He was initially hired as a reporter but was promoted to bureau chief before leaving the paper in 1994.
In 1994, Bragg was hired as a correspondent for the New York Times. During his tenure at the Times, he lived in and worked in New York, Atlanta, Miami, and New Orleans. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro, Arkansas, killings, and the Susan Smith trial as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief prior to Elián González's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the Cuban boy.
Since 1995, Bragg has been working as a freelance writer, and since 2004, he has taught writing in Harvard University, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Boston University, the University of South Florida, and other colleges. He now works as a writing professor at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College of Communication and Information Sciences and writes a column for Southern Living.
Rick 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 is also known as the author of I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, the authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, The Most They Ever Had, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, a biography of the rock and roll legend, and My Southern Journey.
Bragg has won more than 50 writing awards in his 20 years of journalism.
