ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- Pulitzer Prize winning author Rick Bragg will be among the 15 writers and novelists who will be a part of the Author’s Row in the literary arts division of the Orange Beach Festival of Art.

Bragg will sign his books beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 10. All authors will have book signings as they greet Festival attendees.

Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of his native South, including All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man and The Prince of Frogtown.

Bragg, the son of a woman who picked cotton in the red dirt of Calhoun County, Alabama, has written about people and issues around the country and world, but calls his books on family the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart-breaking anthems usually written only in fiction or clichés.

They chronicle the lives of his family, mill workers, whiskey makers, long sufferers and fist fighters.

Bragg, who has written for magazines ranging from Sports Illustrated to The Smithsonian to Food and Wine, was a newspaper writer for more than two decades, covering everything from high school football back home to militant Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times.

He won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, and the Harper Lee Award. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, and has been, for about 40 years now, a freshman at Jacksonville State University.

He is currently the Clarence Cason Professor of Writing at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his step-son, Jake. They have a house in Fairhope, which he calls “the place I can draw a breath.”

He also writes a monthly column for Southern Living.

His only real hobby is fishing, but he is the worst fisherman in his family line.