1. Rick Bragg - The Voice of the South
The inscription on the award was "for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America." While working for the New York Times, Rick reported on such stories as the case of Susan Smith, the young mother who initially claimed that her two sons had been kidnapped after a carjacking, a lie she fabricated to cover up the fact that she had murdered them by strapping them into their car seats and pushing the car into a lake. ... His first book, "All Over But the Shoutin'," is about his mother. Rather than memoirs, Bragg refers to this as his mother's story, although he is definit...
- Word Count: 4108
- Approx Pages: 16
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School