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'''Rick Bragg''' (born [[July 26]], [[1959]] in [[Piedmont, Alabama]]) won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing]] in 1996 for his work at ''[[The New York Times]]''. He credits his writing ability to the oral storytelling of family and friends in his childhood in the [[Appalachian]] foothills of [[Alabama]]. He has written two [[memoirs]]. |
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==Biography== |
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Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the ''New York Times'' in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in [[Haiti]] as a metro reporter, then wrote about the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], the [[Jonesboro]] killings, the [[Susan Smith|Susan Smith trial]] and more as a national correspondent based in [[Atlanta]]. He later became the paper's [[Miami]] bureau chief just in time for [[Elian Gonzalez]]'s arrival and the international controversy surrounding the little [[Cubans|Cuban]] boy. |
Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the ''New York Times'' in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in [[Haiti]] as a metro reporter, then wrote about the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], the [[Jonesboro]] killings, the [[Susan Smith|Susan Smith trial]] and more as a national correspondent based in [[Atlanta]]. He later became the paper's [[Miami]] bureau chief just in time for [[Elian Gonzalez]]'s arrival and the international controversy surrounding the little [[Cubans|Cuban]] boy. |
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On [[May 29]], [[2003]], after serving a two-week suspension during an ==Awards== |
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On [[May 29]], [[2003]], after serving a two-week suspension during an investigation that found Bragg passed off the research of stringers and interns as his own <ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite web |date=Thursday, May 29, 2003; Page C01|url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51506-2003May28?language=printer|title = Rick Bragg Quits At New York Times|format = HTML |publisher = [[Washington Post]]| accessdate = 2007-11-24 | last=Howard Kurtz |quote=}}</ref>, Bragg resigned from the ''Times''<ref name="CNN">{{cite web |date=Thursday, May 29, 2003 Posted: 0433 GMT (12:33 PM HKT)|url = http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/05/28/times.reporter/index.html|title = Times accepts Pulitzer-winning reporter's resignation|format = HTML |publisher = [[CNN]]| accessdate = 2007-11-24 | last= Rose Arce|quote=}}</ref>. The story which sparked the investigation was a story Bragg wrote about Florida Gulf Coast oystermen. He wrote a narrative first person story of how he experienced oystermen culture: |
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{{Cquote2|Bobby Varnes prods the sandy bottom with a worn wooden pole, rhythmically stabbing at the soft sand as the boat idles along, waiting for the pole to strike a hard, brittle shell." White egrets "slip like paper airplanes just overhead" and mullet "belly-flop with a sharp clap into steel-gray water."|Rick Bragg}} |
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Yet Bragg only spent one day in Apalachicola and totally relied on the research and interviews of other reporters which he passed off as his own<ref name="slate">{{cite web |date=Friday, May 23, 2003, at 5:56 PM ET|url = http://www.slate.com/id/2083539|title = Rick Bragg's "Dateline Toe-Touch"|format = HTML |publisher = pub| accessdate = 2007-11-24 | last=Jack Shafer|quote=}}</ref>. |
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He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper newsrooms and now works as a writing professor at the [[University of Alabama]]'s journalism program in its College of Communications and Information Sciences. |
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==Awards== |
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He has received more than 50 writing awards in 20 years, including the prestigious [[American Society of Newspaper Editors]] '''Distinguished Writing Award''' twice. In 1992, he was awarded a [[Nieman Fellowship]] at [[Harvard University]]. |
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==Works== |
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*{{cite book | last = Rick Bragg| authorlink = Rick Bragg| title = All Over but the Shoutin| year = March 16, 1999| publisher = Random House Value Publishing | isbn= 0517361620}} |
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*{{cite book | last = Rick Bragg| authorlink = Rick Bragg| title = Wooden Churches: A Celebration| year = November 1, 1999| publisher = Algonquin Books | isbn= 156512233X}} |
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*{{cite book | last = Rick Bragg| authorlink = Rick Bragg| title = Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg| year = August 28, 2001| publisher = Vintage; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition | isbn= 0375725520}} |
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*{{cite book | last = Rick Bragg| authorlink = Rick Bragg| title = Ava's Man| year = August 13, 2002| publisher = Vintage; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition | isbn= 0375724443}} |
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*{{cite book | last = Rick Bragg| authorlink = Rick Bragg| title = I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story.| year = 2003| publisher = New York: Alfred A. Knopf| isbn= 1400042577}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/bragg/ Rick Bragg at Randomhouse] |
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* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=77 Rick Bragg Bookbrowse Author Biography] |
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* [http://www.ccom.ua.edu/journalism/faculty.html Rick Bragg at University of Alabama] |
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Rick Bragg | |
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Born | Piedmont, Alabama, U.S. | July 26, 1959
Occupation | Novelist Journalist |
Bragg worked at several newspapers before joining the New York Times in 1994. He covered murders and unrest in Haiti as a metro reporter, then wrote about the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jonesboro killings, the Susan Smith trial and more as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. He later became the paper's Miami bureau chief just in time for Elian Gonzalez's arrival and the international controversy surrounding the little Cuban boy.
On May 29, 2003, after serving a two-week suspension during an ==Awards==