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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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Alice Walker: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Tue, Nov 14, 2006

Speaking in the spirit of her latest book, We are the Ones We have been Waiting For, Alice Walker lectures at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia. Walker's We are the Ones We have been Waiting For brings us a collection of meditations that draw equally on her spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions. Essay-style chapters conclude with a suggested meditation on patience, compassion, and forgiveness not only for ourselves but for our foes as well. Taking on some of the greatest challenges of our times, Walker encourages readers to have faith that despite the overwhelming situations we find ourselves in, we are prepared to create positive change. **Alice Walker** is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and one of the most prominent novelists of her generation. Walker is also a bestselling non-fiction writer whose work has been widely praised.

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French Women for All Seasons

Thu, Jan 11, 2007

Mireille Guiliano, author of the best seller, French Women Don't Get Fat, discusses her newest book French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure. French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure is a guide, showing how to savor all life's moments in moderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure. Brimming with fresh advice and seasonal stories, Guiliano's latest focuses on food bien sur (more than 100 delicious new recipes) but also on many other aspects of living that should bring us pleasure, such as picking a wine, dressing well, and even arranging flowers. **Mireille Guiliano** was born and raised in France. President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc (LVMH), she splits her year between New York and Paris. Her first book, French Women Don't Get Fat, has appeared in 37 languages.

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Hank Klibanoff: American Awakening and the Race Beat

Thu, Dec 7, 2006

Hank Klibanoff, lecturing from his book *The Race Beat*, tells the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South, and the brutality used to enforce it. Klibanoff discusses how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the 20th century.

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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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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Wed, Sep 19, 2007

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses her new book, *Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History*, which celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. Ulrich wrote, "They didn't ask to be remembered", in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. She then added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history". Today those words appear almost everywhere, but what do they really mean? In this book, Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history. Ulrich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of *A Midwife's Tale*, is a professor at Harvard University.

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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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Bailey White: Nothing With Strings

Thu, Dec 4, 2008

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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Sharon Olds: One Secret Thing

Tue, Nov 18, 2008

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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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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