Bryan Mealer Explained

Bryan Mealer is a journalist and author in the United States. He covered conflict in Congo[1] and wrote a book about it.[2] He wrote the book Muck City about football programs in economically impoverished agricultural communities of South Florida.[3] [4] He was the co-author of the memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was based on.[5] He wrote a book about his family's heritage in Texas.[6] [7] [8] He has written for publications including The Guardian and Texas Monthly.

Kirkus Reviews described his book on his experiences covering the war in Congo as containing "Gutsy, richly descriptive recollections effectively conjure grisly events in a troubled nation."[9]

The New York Times reviewed his book Muck City about the Glades Central High School Raiders of Belle Glade, Florida and the pursuit of football success.[10] The Palm Beach Post called the book a lesson-filled trip into the past against a backdrop of AIDs, murder, drug use, and tragedy.[11] Kirkus Reviews described it as a "stirring tale of sports as a means of escape from dire circumstances" in Florida's cane sugar producing region.[12] Publishers Weekly noted "it chronicles the evolution of high school football in Belle Glade, Fla.—among the poorest communities in the U.S. and defined by the fertile black silt that helped build a sugarcane-farming empire."[13] Mealer was interviewed about the book on NPR in 2012.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Half a World Away, and at War. www.austinchronicle.com.
  2. Web site: ALL THINGS MUST FIGHT TO LIVE | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  3. News: Must Win. Jay. Jennings. The New York Times . December 28, 2012. NYTimes.com.
  4. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/163537425?storyId=163537425?storyId=163537425
  5. Web site: A Journalistic Ministry. Union. Seminary. October 30, 2019. Union Theological Seminary.
  6. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-kings-of-big-spring-review-theres-oil-in-their-blood-1523487092
  7. Web site: Bryan Mealer's 'The Kings of Big Spring' is a family tale as big and sprawling as Texas. February 1, 2018. Dallas News.
  8. Web site: Everything is Bigger. June 17, 2021. www.tbr.txst.edu.
  9. Web site: ALL THINGS MUST FIGHT TO LIVE | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  10. News: Must Win . The New York Times . 28 December 2012 . Jennings . Jay .
  11. Web site: Review: 'Muck City' much more than football. Jeff. Greer. The Palm Beach Post.
  12. Web site: MUCK CITY | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  13. Web site: Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town by Bryan Mealer .
  14. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/163537425?ft=nprml&f=163407044
  15. Reviews for All Things Must Fight to Live:
  16. Reviews for Muck City:
  17. Reviews for The Kings of Big Spring:
  18. Reviews for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind:

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