San Antonio College Library

In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life. This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills...

Three key works by the early twentieth-century author include the 'prophetic journalism' experiment of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family, and the novella The Morning Watch. Let us now praise famous men: In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration...