Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern author Rick Bragg is the featured speaker for the ninth Gloria Shatto Lecture at Berry College on Tuesday, March 22.
Bragg will speak at 8 p.m. in the Cage Athletic and Recreation Center. The lecture is open to the public and NO tickets are required. Call the Berry College Public Relations Office at 706-236-2226 for more information.
Bragg is the author of three critically acclaimed and best-selling books, “All Over but the Shoutin’”, “Ava’s Man” and “The Prince of Frogtown.” A native Alabamian, Bragg says he learned to tell stories by listening to the masters, the people of the foothills of the Appalachians. “All Over but the Shoutin’” was Bragg’s first book, the story of his mother who devoted her life to making a better life for her three sons. Bragg’s books have become anthems in his native South, honoring the poor and working people, and have struck a chord with readers everywhere.
During his career Bragg worked at the Anniston Star, the Birmingham News and the St. Petersburg Times, before joining The New York Times in 1994. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. As a national correspondent for the Times, Bragg won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, along with more than 50 other writing awards during his career, including the 2009 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year, the 2011 James Beard Journalism Award for Food Culture and Travel and the 2013 Alabama Artist of the Year.
Bragg’s most recent book, “The Most They Ever Had,” is an eloquent tale of an Alabama cotton mill community, which led The New York Times Book Review to state, “It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about.”
Bragg is also the author of “Somebody Told Me,” a collection of his newspaper stories, and “I am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story.” Bragg also writes articles for several magazines, including his popular “Southern Journal” column for Southern Living.
Currently, Bragg is a professor of writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, where he teaches Advanced Magazine Writing and Narrative Non-fiction.
The Gloria Shatto Lecture Series honors the memory of Georgia’s first female college president. Shatto, who served from 1980-1998, believed strongly that there is more to a college education than what can be learned in the classroom. The Shatto Lecture Series honors her vision by bringing to Berry speakers of international renown.
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