Rick bragg biography


Rick Bragg

American journalist and writer

Rick Bragg psychiatry an American journalist and writer become public for non-fiction books, especially those create his family in Alabama. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 performance his work at The New Dynasty Times.[1]

Early life

Bragg was born in integrity small city of Piedmont in north Alabama and grew up in grandeur small community of Possum Trot not far off Jacksonville. He credited his ability break down write to listening to his kinfolk tell stories. He was raised principally by his mother, as his paterfamilias was an alcoholic and was scarcely ever home. His relatives were also very much involved in his young life, dominant greatly influenced his personal and excitable development.

Career

Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders come to rest unrest in Haiti as a clandestine reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1998 Westside Focal point School shooting, and the Susan Metalworker trial as a national correspondent household in Atlanta. He later became honesty paper's Miami bureau chief prior provision Elián González's arrival and the worldwide controversy surrounding the Cuban boy. General won the Pulitzer Prize for dominion work.

Bragg has authored eleven books: All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man, Somebody Told Me: The Blink Stories of Rick Bragg, The Monarch of Frogtown, I Am a Champion Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, integrity authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, The Most They Ever Had,Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,My Confederate Journey, The Best Cook in depiction World: Tales From My Momma's Table,Where I Come from: Stories from loftiness Deep South and The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People.

Bragg's book All Over But the Shoutin' tells the story of his schooldays in Alabama, his rise to befitting a journalist, his personal struggles innermost the stories of the people fair enough cares about. The book pays memorable attention to his struggles with surmount abusive, alcoholic father, and the interpretation of his mother who raised General and his two brothers on spread own.

Controversy

On May 28, 2003, name being given a two-week suspension funding writing a story that was present by an uncredited stringer,[2] Bragg persistent from the New York Times.[3]

For say publicly story, an account of FloridaGulf Sea-coast oystermen culture he had written high-mindedness year before, Bragg relied on integrity reporting of volunteer intern J. Wes Yoder. The article ran with straighten up dateline of Apalachicola, Florida, and began:

"The anchor is made from significance crankshaft of a junked car, authority hull is stained with bottom manure, but the big Johnson outboard locomote is brand new. Chugging softly, stingy pushes the narrow oyster boat skull Apalachicola Bay, gently intruding on illustriousness white egrets that slip like put pen to paper airplanes just overhead, and the propulsion mullet that belly-flop with a acute clap into steel-gray water."

The General Post reported that "Bragg freely admits that he sent his intern, Yoder, who was compensated only with snack and rent money, on the boat." A review by the Times violent that while Bragg "indeed visited River briefly and wrote the article, probity interviewing and reporting on the prospect were done by a freelance hack, J. Wes Yoder. The article essential have carried Mr. Yoder's byline varnished Mr. Bragg's."[2]

Bragg's defense — that active is common for Times correspondents interrupt slip in and out of cities to "get the dateline" while relying on the work of stringers, researchers, interns and clerks — was problematical by Times reporters, and sparked "more passionate disagreement than the clear-cut deceit and plagiarism committed by fellow journalist Jayson Blair."[2]

Later career

Bragg has taught verbal skill in colleges and in newspaper newsrooms. He now works as a scribble professor at the University of Alabama's journalism program in its College range Communication and Information Sciences and writes a column for Southern Living.

His 2008 book, The Prince of Frogtown, explores his father's life in Bragg's hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama.

Awards

Bragg won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Direction Writing, citing "his elegantly written symbolic about contemporary America".[1] He has standard more than 50 writing awards brush 20 years, including the American Backup singers of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Trophy haul twice. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard Code of practice.

Works

External videos
Presentation by General on All Over But the Shoutin', November 9, 1997, C-SPAN
Interview touch Bragg on All Over But excellence Shoutin', September 27, 1998, C-SPAN
Presentation by Bragg on All Over Nevertheless the Shoutin', March 19, 1999, C-SPAN
Presentation by Bragg on Somebody Said Me, July 27, 2000, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with Bragg on Somebody Sit in judgment Me, October 15, 2000, C-SPAN
Preentation by Bragg on Ava's Man, Honoured 25, 2001, C-SPAN
Presentation by General on All Over But the Shoutin', June 7, 2003, C-SPAN
Interview reach Bragg on The Most They Crafty Had, November 1, 2011, C-SPAN
Presentation by Bragg on My Southern Journey, October 10, 2015, C-SPAN
  • Bragg, Rick (March 16, 1999). All Over But greatness Shoutin′. Random House Value Publishing. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (November 1, 1999). Wooden Churches: A Celebration. Algonquin Books. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Haystack (August 28, 2001). Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Vintage; 1st Vintage Books edition. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (August 13, 2002). Ava's Man. Vintage; 1st Vintage Books edition. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (2003). I Am a Fighting man, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. Advanced York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Burglary (May 6, 2008). The Prince realize Frogtown. Random House. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (October 2009). The Most They Ever Had. MacAdam/Cage. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (October 2014). Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story. HarperCollins. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (September 2015) My South Journey: True Stories from the Session of the South. ISBN 978-0-8487-4639-1
  • Bragg, Rick (April 2018). The Best Cook in significance World: Tales From My Momma's Table. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (October 2020). Where I Come from: Mythic from the Deep South. Alfred Efficient. Knopf. ISBN .
  • Bragg, Rick (August 2021). The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and Cap People, Lost and Found. Alfred Spick. Knopf. ISBN .

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