Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of twelve books. The Speckled Beauty is the tender story of how the author's life was transformed by a half blind, starving, stray dog. The Speckled Beauty is a compassionate Southern family memoir that begins with the arrival of the dog Speck at a critical moment in Bragg's life. It captures the devotion between two enabling each other to begin to heal.