Rick Bragg

 

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Rick Bragg is the bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin', Somebody Told Me, Ava's Man, and I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, The Prince of Frogtown and The Most They Ever Had. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 and was the recipient of the 2013 Alabama Artist of the Year Award. He lives in Tuscaloosa where he teaches journalism at the University of Alabama.


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Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader (Contributor)

An anthology of memoir and fiction by some of the most acclaimed writers in contemporary Southern literature

Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as Southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the rough South. From literary legends to emerging voices, the acclaimed writers featured in this collection view their hardscrabble South without romanticism or false nostalgia — not through moonlight and magnolia, but moonshine and Marlboros.

This is the dirty South as captured by those rooted in its land yet able to share its stories with candor and courage. Grit Lit guides readers through tales both tall and true, intoxicating stories of loss, violence, failure, feuds, family and, above all, survival against the odds. Raw and raucous, Grit Lit gathers some of the most provocative writing to come out of the South in the last 30 years. With a preface by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter's introduction to the genre's origins and influences, this bold anthology lays bare the rough South in all its battered glory and dares readers not to stare in awe.

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