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. is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Piedmont is a small, rural town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ...

Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro killings, the Susan Smith trial and more as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief just in time for Elian Gonzalez's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the little Cuban boy. The Oklahoma City bombing was an attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ... Jonesboro or Jonesborough is the name of a number of cities in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Jonesborough, County Armagh Northern Ireland Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro, Georgia, originally Jonesborough Jonesboro, Illinois Jonesboro, Indiana Jonesboro, Maine Jonesborough, Tennessee This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated... Susan Smith (born September 26, 1971 as Susan Leigh Vaughan), of Union, South Carolina, was convicted July 22, 1995, of murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993, and later sentenced to life... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Elián González (born December 6, 1993) was a young boy when his mother escaped from Cuba (which has strict laws forbidding emigration) and floated to freedom in Florida. ...

On May 29, 2003, after serving a two-week suspension during an investigation of his use of notes written by a stringer, that broiled into a huge controversy [1], Bragg resigned from the Times. [2] is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He has received more than 50 writing awards in 20 years, including the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award twice. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper newsrooms. American Society of Newspaper Editors The American Society of Newspaper Editors, also known as ASNE, is a membership organization for daily newspaper editors, people who serve the editorial needs of daily newspapers (wire service editors, news executives at newspaper companies, people who work for journalism think tanks, etc. ... Nieman Fellowship is an award given to mid-career journalists by The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. ... Harvard redirects here. ...

He now works as a writing professor at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College of Communications and Information Sciences. The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship school of the University of Alabama System. ...

Works

• All Over but the Shoutin'
• Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
• Ava's Man
• I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

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External links

• Rick Bragg at Randomhouse
• Rick Bragg Bookbrowse Author Biography
• Rick Bragg at University of Alabama

Criticism

• Article in slate.com