{"id":3905,"date":"2014-10-09T13:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:44:46","slug":"bragg-rick-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"BRAGG, RICK, 1959-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; journalist; university professor. Born&#8211; July\u00a0, 1959, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; Charles and Margaret Marie Bundrum Bragg. Married&#8211; Lisa Creel; Married&#8211; Diane Wells, 2005. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University; Harvard University (Neiman Fellow), 1992. Reporter for the Anniston Star, 1980-86; Birmingham News, 1986-89; St. Petersburg Times, 1989-94; New York Times, 1994-2003. Professor of journalism, University of Alabama College of Communications, 2005-. Winner of some fifty awards for writing, including\u00a0the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, 1996; American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award; Harper Lee Award for Alabama Writer of the Year, 2009. Alabama Library Association Author of the Year for Non-Fiction, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All over but the Shouting.\u00a0 New York, Pantheon, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Ava&#8217;s Man. New York: Knopf, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>I Am a Soldier Too:\u00a0 The Jessica Lynch Story. New York: Knopf, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Most They Ever Had. MacAdamCage, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South.\u00a0 Oxmoor, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Prince of Frogtown.\u00a0 New York: Knopf, 2001.Redbirds:\u00a0 Memories from the South. London: Harville Press, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody Told Me:\u00a0 The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Joint_Publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story.\u00a0 HarperCollins, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Wooden Churches. Chapel Hill, NC:\u00a0 Algonquin Press, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; journalist; university professor. Born&#8211; July\u00a0, 1959, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; Charles and Margaret Marie Bundrum Bragg. Married&#8211; Lisa Creel; Married&#8211; Diane Wells, 2005. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University; Harvard University (Neiman Fellow), 1992. Reporter for the Anniston Star, 1980-86; Birmingham News, 1986-89; St. Petersburg Times, 1989-94; New York Times, 1994-2003. Professor of journalism, University of Alabama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}