Rick Bragg

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July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama

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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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Books by Rick Bragg

Average rating: 4.01 · 10,210 ratings · 1,303 reviews · 19 distinct works

	All Over But the Shoutin' 4.01 avg rating — 6,672 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Ava's Man 4.09 avg rating — 1,875 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Prince of Frogtown 4.00 avg rating — 824 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg 4.08 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Most They Ever Had 3.94 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story 3.35 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Redbirds: Memories From The South 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wooden Churches: A Celebration 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Het verhaal van mijn moeder 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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Quotes by Rick Bragg

“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

39 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

33 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

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