Rick Bragg





Rick Bragg

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born
in Piedmont, Alabama
July 26, 1959

gender
male


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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, 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 cliches. They 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 & Wine, was a newspaper writer for two decades, covering high school football for the Jack...more


Average rating: 4.05 · 16,790 ratings · 1,638 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors
All Over But the Shoutin'
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 11,530 ratings — published 1991 — 18 editions
Ava's Man
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions
The Prince of Frogtown
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions
Somebody Told Me: The Newsp...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
The Most They Ever Had
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
I am a Soldier, Too: The Je...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
Redbirds: Memories From The...
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
Wooden Churches: A Celebration
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1999
Het verhaal van mijn moeder
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002
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“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'

“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
Rick Bragg

“It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
Rick Bragg



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