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Fannie Flagg's career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls, and she has not stopped since. At age nineteen she began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote for and appeared on Candid Camera. She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; Can't Wait to Get to Heaven; I Still Dream About You; The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion; and The Whole Town's Talking. Flagg's script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Fannie Flagg is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. She lives happily in California and Alabama.
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settings -- Missouri and New York and to a lesser extent, Chicago and
Washington, D.C. You hadn't forsaken the South entirely-thank God for Sookie-but
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want to be typecast as a "southern writer"? Or did you want to show
that characters like yours can exist anywhere?
I would not mind at all I were to be called a southern writer, I'd
be flattered, as a matter of fact. I am from Alabama, after all, and I still
live there a great deal of the time, but what may be closer to the truth is that
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This is my family's background. I have never been extremely poor or extremely
rich although I would not mind a bit being extremely rich. But as I have
traveled around the country, I've noticed that class or type defines a person
far more accurately than a region.
I've found middle class people, no matter where they live, tend to dress a
certain way, think a certain way, just as the very rich are pretty much the same
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