ABSTRACT
Rick Bragg has established himself as one of American journalism’s premier writers in the past decade. He writes about unique people, extraordinary events, natural and man-made disasters, and social conditions and problems. Bragg, who resigned as domestic correspondent for The New York Times in 2003, formerly wrote for Los Angeles Times magazine and its metro desk. A native of Alabama, he wrote human interest features for his newspaper about the South with a passion and sense of the region that only a native can acquire. He was based in Atlanta, but traveled throughout the nation and the southeast for his newspaper to find the best features for an international audience. He took an issue or an event and wrote about it from the perspective that it became a story of national interest, not just a small town, rural, or regional matter. A group of five of his stories about a variety of people and places that portrayed Southern life in 1995 earned him the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
