Dahlonega
Literary Festival
An Annual Celebration of Readers, Writers, and Books
2023 Featured Speaker
Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg
2021 Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence Award Winner
Beloved best-selling author Rick Bragg will headline the 2023
Dahlonega Literary Festival on Saturday, March 4th.
Bragg’s latest book, The Speckled Beauty, is a warm-hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Written with Bragg’s blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, the book captures the extraordinary devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
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.
