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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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Iris and Roy Johansen: Silent Thunder

Tue, Jul 8, 2008

Mother and son authors, Iris and Roy Johansen, team up to discuss their latest collaboration, *Silent Thunder*. The story is a suspense tale about a mysterious submarine that holds a dark secret. This is a rare appearance by Iris Johansen, who has written 17 consecutive *New York Times* bestselling novels. She lives in Georgia. Edgar Award-winner Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen's son, is a novelist and screenwriter. He lives in southern California with his wife.

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Mary Alice Monroe: Time Is A River

Thu, Jul 10, 2008

Mary Alice Monroe discusses her latest novel, *Time Is A River*. It's the story of Mia Landan, a woman healing from divorce in a remote cabin by a river.

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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit

Sun, Nov 4, 2007

Lou Dobbs discusses his latest book, *Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit*. Dobbs has examined the US's public policy choices over the past 30 years. He lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened the rest of America to the breaking point. He explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans.

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Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher

Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Tom Perrotta talks about his newest novel, *The Abstinence Teacher*, which exposes the powerful emotions underlying modern American family life and explores the complex spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. *The Abstinence Teacher* is characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that have animated Tom Perrotta's previous novels. Perrotta is the author of five previous works of fiction: *Bad Haircut*, *The Wishbones*, *Election*, and the *New York Times* bestsellers *Joe College* and *Little Children*.

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The Trouble With Boys: What Parents and Educators Must Do

Wed, Feb 25, 2009

Peg Tyre discusses her book, *The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do*. The book covers why boys are falling behind girls' achievement in school and not attending college in the same numbers.

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Terror Dream: The Post-9/11 American Psyche

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her new book, *The Terror Dream*, a dissection of the mind of America after 9/11. Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. *The Terror Dream* shows what 9/11 revealed about us and offers us the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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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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Pearl Cleage: Seen It All and Done the Rest

Tue, Mar 18, 2008

Pearl Cleage reads and discusses her latest book, *Seen It All and Done The Rest*.

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Alice Hoffman: The Third Angel

Wed, Apr 16, 2008

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.

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