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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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  • 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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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Rue McClanahan reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in her memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older. Who can forget Rue McClanahan as the sexy Southern vixen, Blanche Devereaux, on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls? Now, the actress reveals her life with saucy wit and Southern charm in *My First Five Husbands*, an entertaining take on life and love from an irrepressible star. From her roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to the Golden Girls era and beyond, this memoir is the irresistible story of one woman's quest to find herself. Now happily married to her soulmate, Husband #6, McClanahan is proof that many things can and do get better with age and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks discusses the American military adventure in Iraq, with a preface on recent developments.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Sophie Gee discusses her book *Scandal of the Season*, an erotic, witty drama about life in 18th century London, a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears that threatened to erupt in political violence. *Scandal of the Season* is supposedly a fictionalized account of the true story behind Alexander Pope's 1712 poem, "The Rape of the Lock." When Pope composed his satirical epic, he was shining a spotlight on a suspected affair between the British aristocrats Arabella Fermor and Lord Robert Petre, two mainstays of the London scene. The intrigue became common knowledge when Petre publicly cut off a lock of Fermor's hair, providing fodder for gossip writers of the time.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum