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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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  • Joseph Dabney discusses his new book, *The Food, Folklore and Art of Lowcountry Cooking.* The book's subtitle is: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France, Germany and Scotland. Dabney takes readers on a prideful tour of Charleston, Beaufort, and Savannah and offers authentic regional voices, old-time photographs, and fascinating sidebars.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Two-time *New York Times* bestselling author Bailey White talks about *Nothing With Strings*, a new collection of stories of small town life, southern whimsy, and unforgettable characters.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Author Laura Claridge discusses *Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners*, the first authoritative biography of the woman who created a standard of behavior for America. In this biography, Claridge explores why, after 50 years and a checkered past, Emily Post still has an enormous influence on how we think society should behave.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Sharon Olds shares readings and stories behind *One Secret Thing*, a series of poems about family, sex, and the act of recovering from past traumas.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • 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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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Roy Blount Jr. discusses his *Alphabet Juice* book, which celebrates “the juju of language”, the sonic and kinetic energies of words, and an exploration of our language. He uses sources as venerable as the Oxford English Dictionary and as hip as UrbanDictionary.com.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Garrison Keillor introduces his book, *Liberty*, the latest offering from the host of *A Prairie Home Companion*.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Candace Bushnell, *The New York Times* author of *Lipstick Jungle* and *Sex and the City*, examines the lives of the tough and tender women who call the tony building at one Fifth Avenue home. *One Fifth Avenue* is a modern-day story of old and new money, and the thirst for power and social prominence that goes with it.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Honor Moore discusses her most recent memoir, *The Bishop's Daughter*, the story of Moore's complex and visionary father, a man who was an Episcopal priest, an activist bishop in Washington under the Johnson administration, and a civil rights leader. Moore’s story covers issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith. Moore is also the author of three collections of poems.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • In *Where Are You Now?*, Mary Higgins Clark tells the story of Charles MacKenzie Jr. who has been missing for 10 years. He left his Manhattan upper west side apartment one morning and was never seen again. Yet, each Mother's Day, he makes a call to his mother. Carol Higgins Clark discusses *Zapped*, which begins with the Reillys returning home from a fun summer weekend. When the lights of the city mysteriously go off, Regan and Jack are left alone in their home with a thief who knows the location of a safe inside the house.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum