Who is Rick Bragg from All Over but the Shoutin' and what is their importance? All_Over_but_the_Shoutin English & Literature Rick Bragg | All Over but the Shoutin'

The author and main character of his autobiography, Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who, against the odds, rose from a humble birth to a poor family in Piedmont, Alabama to regional correspondent for the New York Times for the Southeastern United States. Bragg was born in 1959 to Charles Bragg and Margaret Bundham Bragg. His older brother, Sam, was born three years earlier and his younger brother, Mark, was born three years later.