January 27, 2004 -- An appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg
of Jacksonville has been rescheduled to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5 on the 11th
Floor of Cole Library. He will address the Jacksonville State
University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The public
is invited.
Bragg is currently working on his fourth book of creative
non-fiction. It will feature a story about how the closing of the mill village
and the demise of the textile industry in Calhoun County changed the lives of
its employees and residents of the county. Bragg’s other three books are: All
Over But The Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, and I’m a Soldier, Too: The Jessica
Lynch Story. Another book, Somebody Told Me, is a compilation of his
news stories working as a news journalist.
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