Mr. Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All Over but the Shoutin, ' Ava's Man , and The Prince of Frogtown. Bragg, who has written for numerous magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Food & Wine , was a newspaper reporter for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News , and, among other topics, Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times . He has won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American...See more

Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of All Over but the Shoutin, ' Ava's Man , and The Prince of Frogtown. Bragg, who has written for numerous magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Food & Wine , was a newspaper reporter for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News , and, among other topics, Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times . He has won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. A graduate of Jacksonville State University, Bragg was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa. See less