Rick Bragg is the best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and Somebody Told Me. A national correspondent for the The New York Times, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996. He lives in New Orleans.
Grab&Yacute;s you from the first sentence....&Yacute;and stays with you long after you put it down....It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about. --The New York Times Book Review <br> Earthy, mischievous, yet gorgeous. . . . &Yacute;Bragg's tales . . . would not be out of place if they were told around a campfire. --San Francisco Chronicle <br> As toothsome as a catfish supper. &Yacute;Bragg is every bit the equal of . . . Harper Lee and Truman Capote. --People <br> &Yacute;Bragg has a true gift for great storytelling (the kind...that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps). --New Orleans Times-Picayune