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 2025 Featured Speaker

 Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg
2021 Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence Award Winner

Beloved best-selling author Rick Bragg will headline the 2025 
Dahlonega Literary Festival on Saturday, March 1st.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, journalist and author, Bragg has written twelve books, including two best-selling memoirs, Ava’s Man and All Over but the Shouting. The acclaimed biography, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, tells the story of the American music legend, a giant in early rock and roll and in country music.  During his career, Bragg has worked for numerous newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and St. Petersburg Times.  He taught writing at Harvard University, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Boston University, and others.

Bragg  lives in Alabama and writes a monthly column for Southern Living magazine. He is a regular contributor to Garden & Gun magazine and is currently a writing professor at The University of Alabama’s Journalism program in  its College of Communication and Information Sciences. 

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