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Bragg to Speak to Journalism Students

Posted on: Monday, 30 January 2006, 12:00 CST

By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.

Jan. 30--Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and nationally acclaimed author Rick Bragg will speak to WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism students and the public at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 459 of the WVU Business & Economics Building. Bragg will serve as the 2006 Clark Family Emery "Pete" Sasser Lecturer in Journalism. Bragg's speech will be "Writing Memoir: Narrative Nonfiction in the Foothills of Appalachia."

Bragg is known best in West Virginia for writing "I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story." Private First Class Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue in 2003 during the war in Iraq captured the attention and captivated the emotions of millions of Americans.

He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling "All Over but the Shoutin,'" and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former national correspondent for the New York Times.

He says he learned to tell stories by listening to the masters -- the people of the foothills of the Appalachians.

The lectureship honors former School of Journalism Dean Sasser, who died June 25, 1995. The Tom Clark Family established the Emery L. "Pete" Sasser Lectureship in Journalism in his memory.

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Source: The Dominion Post (Morgantown, W.Va.)

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