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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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  • Jill McCorkle talks about her new book, *Going Away Shoes*. This is a collection of eleven new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. Shoes figure largely in these stories of confronting the complications of love—honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, glass slippers—as all the characters march to a place of new awareness, and, in one way or another, transform their lives.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Frances Richey discusses her book of poetry, *The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War*, a personal exploration of the daily feelings a mother experiences while her child goes off to war and a family's struggle to overcome ideological differences in the face of a greater cause.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Tony Horwitz discusses *A Voyage Long and Strange*, in which he attempts to understand what happened in the Americas between Columbus' arrival and the Mayflower's landing on Plymouth Rock. During this time, vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs, among others, roamed the unknown continent in search of grapes, gold, converts, and even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed to locate their treasure, their adventures and exploits left an indelible impression on those they met, peoples who would eventually come face to face with the English settlers.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Pearl Cleage reads and discusses her latest book, *Seen It All and Done The Rest*.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • 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.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • 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.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • 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.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Author Randall Kennedy grapples with a stigma of our racial discourse that is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in black America: "selling out," or racial betrayal. The new book, which comes in the wake of his controversial national best-seller, *Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word*, shows how usage of the word "sellout" bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Billie Letts discusses her new novel, *Made in the U.S.A.*, which is the story of two children who must discover how cruel, unfair, and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Andre Dubus III, author of *The House of Sand and Fog*, discusses his new novel, *The Garden of Last Days*. Its themes include sex, parenthood, honor, and masculinity.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum