"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message ...
"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written
by a free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Not to me.
Tom Schoene

In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, the ghost writer-
has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors
Distinguished Writing Award, and more than 50 writing awards in his 20-year
career. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper news rooms.

Sour grapes mode still on! :-)

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Rick Bragg's books about his grandfather (Ava'a Man) and his mother
(All Over but the Shoutin) are as good as I have read by a living
author. If he does as good a job in helping Jessica tell her story (I
Am a Soldier Too) it will be a best seller. They are splitting a
million bucks advance for the story. I predict that the book will make
each of them far more than that. He is a master story teller who can
really spin a yarn. I saw him on CSPAN, but he would not discuss the
NY Times debacle. I think he got a bum rap. The Times needs him far
worse than he needs the Times.

Gene Myers
A gimpy old pilot who reads a lot.