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Rick Bragg

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in Piedmont, Alabama

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 Jacksonv ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 66,647 ratings · 7,314 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	All Over But the Shoutin' 4.13 avg rating — 29,483 ratings — published 1997 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.27 avg rating — 7,407 ratings — published 2001 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People 4.44 avg rating — 5,723 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South 4.22 avg rating — 4,921 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Best Cook in the World 4.21 avg rating — 3,514 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.15 avg rating — 3,268 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South 4.21 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.21 avg rating — 2,085 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story 4.16 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.16 avg rating — 1,066 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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

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“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

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“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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What shall we read in April, 2020? Books published after 1980.

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, by Anthony Ray Hinton

17 votes 27.9%

Clay's Quilt, by Silas House

15 votes 24.6%

All Over But the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg

12 votes 19.7%

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts

7 votes 11.5%

Sugar Run, by Mesha Maren

5 votes 8.2%

Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan

5 votes 8.2%

61 total votes

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