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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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Jan Karon: Home to Holly Springs

Mon, Nov 5, 2007

Jan Karon discusses her new novel, *Home to Holly Springs*. The Margaret Mitchell House, in partnership with the Jimmy Carter Library, presents author Jan Karon. In *Home to Holly Springs*, Karon tells the story of a newly retired priest's spur-of-the-moment adventure. For the first time in decades, Father Tim returns to his birthplace, Holly Springs, Mississippi, in response to a mysterious, unsigned note saying simply: Come home.

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Georgia Review: Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn

Wed, Oct 17, 2007

Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn read and discuss their recent poetry. The poets are presented by The Margaret Mitchell House and The Georgia Review. **Natasha Trethewey**'s most recent collection is *Native Guard*, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. A professor at Emory University, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry collections include *Domestic Work* and *Bellocq's Ophelia*. **Stephen Dunn** is the author of 16 books, including *Different Hours*, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Since 1974 he has taught at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. Dunn is the recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and three National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships.

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Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book

Tue, Jan 15, 2008

Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of *March*, discusses her latest work. *People of the Book* is a novel about the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love.

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Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher

Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Tom Perrotta talks about his newest novel, *The Abstinence Teacher*, which exposes the powerful emotions underlying modern American family life and explores the complex spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. *The Abstinence Teacher* is characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that have animated Tom Perrotta's previous novels. Perrotta is the author of five previous works of fiction: *Bad Haircut*, *The Wishbones*, *Election*, and the *New York Times* bestsellers *Joe College* and *Little Children*.

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The Trouble With Boys: What Parents and Educators Must Do

Wed, Feb 25, 2009

Peg Tyre discusses her book, *The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do*. The book covers why boys are falling behind girls' achievement in school and not attending college in the same numbers.

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What Is Team Trivia?

Tue, Feb 5, 2008

Author and all-time *Jeopardy!* champion Ken Jennings poses brain-teasing questions from his new release, *Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days*. Like a farmer's almanac, the trivia almanac devotes a page to every day of the year: but instead of predicting the weather, it offers trivia questions pegged to oddball historic events that occurred on that date.

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Pearl Cleage: Seen It All and Done the Rest

Tue, Mar 18, 2008

Pearl Cleage reads and discusses her latest book, *Seen It All and Done The Rest*.

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Alice Hoffman: The Third Angel

Wed, Apr 16, 2008

Alice Hoffman discusses *The Third Angel*, a triptych of interwoven love stories anchored to a haunted London hotel. In this novel of dark romance and penetrating psychic insight, Hoffman dramatizes the shocks and revelations that forge the self and reveals the necessity and toll of empathy and kindness.

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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

Mon, Apr 21, 2008

Elizabeth Strout discusses her latest book, *Olive Kitteridge*, a series of 13 interlocking tales that present a portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers. Strout creates a world that represents the entire human drama, the highs and lows of life.

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Curtis Roosevelt: Too Close to the Sun

Wed, Nov 19, 2008

The oldest grandson of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Curtis Roosevelt, discusses his new book, *Too Close to the Sun: Growing up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor*. He talks about FDR’s lively bedside breakfast meetings and the more adult observations of the tension that riddled the family while he was a teenager.

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