Rick Bragg
Chattanooga State Community College welcomes Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize winner, best selling author, newspaper writer and current journalism professor at the University of Alabama as its featured author during the award-winning Writers@Work series April 13-17.
Mr. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at The New York Times.
He is the author of two best-selling memoirs, All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man, as well as The Prince of Frogtown and his newly released biography, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story. Bragg has told stories and taught writing at Harvard University, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Boston University, the University of South Florida, and other colleges.
Writers@Work also welcomes Lila Quintero Weaver, author-illustrator of a debut graphic novel that explores the connections between immigration and race, Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 2012). Darkroom is the story of Weaver’s family’s immigration to the American South from Argentina in 1961 when she was five years old.
Writers@Work will hold three free public events. On Monday, April 13, join the writers at the Chattanooga Public Library Auditorium downtown at 6 p.m. for readings, book signings and a Q&A session. Tuesday, April 14 brings the writers back to the main Chattanooga State campus Humanities Theatre at 7 p.m. where the public can enjoy a “Behind the Writer” interview, dessert reception and book signing. On Wednesday, April 15, Mr. Bragg and Ms. Weaver will appear at the Hunter Museum beginning at 6:30 p.m. for readings, book signings and a dessert reception.
The on-campus events will focus on Chattanooga State student writers, faculty and staff. Events will take place periodically throughout the week of April 13-17 in the Library Mobile Classroom in the IMC building. For more information about the event, please call Erica Lux at 423.697.3233 or email Erica.lux@chattanoogastate.edu.
Lila Quintero Weaver