Rick Bragg

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July 26, 1959

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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

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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	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ava's Man 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince of Frogtown 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most They Ever Had 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redbirds: Memories From The South 4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wooden Churches: A Celebration 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1999	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het verhaal van mijn moeder 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing by Marc Smirnoff (Editor), Rick Bragg (Foreword), Rick Bass (Contributor) 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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'

tags: compassion, dignity, poverty

94 people liked it

“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

tags: babies, grandmothers, heaven, sky, stars

74 people liked it

“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

tags: poverty, success

45 people liked it

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