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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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The Clarks: Mistresses of Mystery

Thu, May 8, 2008

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.

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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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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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Jay Hakes: Declaring Energy Independence

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

Executive Director of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum Jay Hakes discusses his new book, *A Declaration of Energy Independence*, which outlines seven economically and politically viable paths to energy independence. In response to the 1970s oil crisis, America developed a bipartisan energy policy that made America safer, greener, and far less dependent on foreign oil. In response to the oil crisis of the 1970s, American oil imports fell by 50% and greenhouse gas emissions dropped by nine percent in just five years. Hakes explains how this was possible, and how America can do it again?

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Charles Martin: Where the River Ends

Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Charles Martin discusses his latest novel, *Where the River Ends*. **Charles Martin** served one year at Hampton University as an adjunct professor in the English department. In 1999, he left a career in business to pursue his writing. He and his wife, Christy, live a stone's throw from the St. John's River in Jacksonville, Florida, with their three boys, Charlie, John T., and Rives. Martin is also the author of *When Crickets Cry*.

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Garrison Keillor: Liberty

Fri, Sep 26, 2008

Garrison Keillor introduces his book, *Liberty*, the latest offering from the host of *A Prairie Home Companion*.

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Candace Bushnell: One Fifth Avenue

Mon, Oct 6, 2008

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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Ellen F. Brown: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind

Wed, Feb 16, 2011

Ellen Brown, lawyer and an award-winning freelance writer, discusses the book she co-authored with John Wiley, Jr. The book is titled, *Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood*. She tells the story of the extensive research they undertook in order to write this biography which is focused mainly on the book itself. How it went from a disorganized and incomplete manuscript by an unknown Southern writer and how it was discovered by a major New York publisher and became one of the most popular, profitable, and controversial novels in literary history.

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Jill McCorkle on Going Away Shoes

Fri, Nov 12, 2010

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.

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David Isay: Listening is an Act of Love

Tue, Dec 9, 2008

David Isay tells about his new compilation in print, *Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project*. StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project in American history, has collected the memories of more than 20,000 people from all 50 states and every imaginable walk of life, background, identity group, age and state of mind. Isay is the StoryCorps founder and president. His radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody Awards. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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