Draft:Bryan Mealer
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Comment: It is simple for me to say, this article should be for the book, Muck City. Reviews of books cannot be used for the author because it has nothing to inform if not about the book. Clearly not notable per WP:NAUTHOR and WP:NJOURNALIST as the case may be. Please direct this article to the proper name it should be, just as the source reads. Cheers! Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 06:04, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Potentially WP:N, however, sources border on WP:ROUTINE Chetsford (talk) 05:06, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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]
Books
- All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo[15]
- Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town Crown Archetype ISBN 978-0-307-88862-4
- The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream Flatiron ISBN 978-1-250-05891-1
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope co-authored with William Kamkwamba William Morrow & Company ISBN 978-0-06-173032-0[16]
References
- ^ "Half a World Away, and at War". www.austinchronicle.com.
- ^ "ALL THINGS MUST FIGHT TO LIVE | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ Jennings, Jay (December 28, 2012). "Must Win". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ https://www.npr.org/transcripts/163537425?storyId=163537425?storyId=163537425
- ^ Seminary, Union (October 30, 2019). "A Journalistic Ministry". Union Theological Seminary.
- ^ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-kings-of-big-spring-review-theres-oil-in-their-blood-1523487092
- ^ "Bryan Mealer's 'The Kings of Big Spring' is a family tale as big and sprawling as Texas". Dallas News. February 1, 2018.
- ^ "Everything is Bigger". www.tbr.txst.edu. June 17, 2021.
- ^ "ALL THINGS MUST FIGHT TO LIVE | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ Jennings, Jay (28 December 2012). "Must Win". The New York Times.
- ^ Greer, Jeff. "Review: 'Muck City' much more than football". The Palm Beach Post.
- ^ "MUCK CITY | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town by Bryan Mealer".
- ^ https://www.npr.org/transcripts/163537425?ft=nprml&f=163407044
- ^ "All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer".
- ^ "Books by Bryan Mealer and Complete Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com.