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Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg visits campus BOWLING GREEN, O.– Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, will talk about the joys and challenges
of storytelling, writing and reporting on Sept. 30 at Bowling Green State University.
Bragg is currently co-writing, with former Iraq POW Jessica Lynch, a biography titled, “I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch
Story,” to be published by Knopf in November.
As the 2003 Currier Visiting Lecturer at BGSU, Bragg will give a free, public lecture about the writing life at 7 p.m. Tuesday
(Sept. 30) in 101 Olscamp Hall. A reception and book signing will follow.
Bragg also will speak to hundreds of high school students attending the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association (GLIPA)
conference on Oct. 1 and meet with University honors students.
Bragg has studied storytelling since his childhood in the Alabama foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. He is nationally
recognized for his stories about growing up in the South and for his journalistic work about people who might otherwise be
overlooked. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer
Prize for feature writing.
He joined the New York Times in 1994, after stints with the Los Angeles Times, the St. Petersburg Times, the Birmingham News
and The Anniston (Ala.) Star. This summer he signed a book deal—reportedly worth a million dollars—to co-write U.S. Army Sgt.
Lynch’s story.
His book, “All Over But the Shoutin,” tells the story of a mother who endured an alcoholic husband haunted by the Korean War
to raise three sons. The book was a New York Times notable book of the year and was selected as one of the best books of the
year by several news organizations and reader groups.
The Currier Visiting Lectures Series is made possible in part by an endowed gift from the estate of Florence and Jesse Currier
who came to BGSU in 1940, he to teach English and journalism, and she, to work in residence life. Jesse Currier was responsible
for a full-fledged journalism program being established at the University, and Florence Currier served as dean of women from
1949 until her retirement in 1963.
The Florence and Jesse Currier Fund at BGSU is used for journalism scholarships, faculty development, special projects and
the annual lecture series that brings distinguished journalists and media professionals to campus to speak and meet with students
and faculty.
Past speakers in the series have included Mara Liasson of National Public Radio; Brian Bartow, media relations manager for
the St. Louis Cardinals; satirist Michael Moore, and nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins.
The 2003 Currier Visiting Lecture is sponsored by the University’s Department of Journalism, the School of Communication Studies
and GLIPA. Contributors include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors Program and the Department of English.
(Posted September 25, 2003 )
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