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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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  • 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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  • Laura Claridge: Emily Post

    Wed, Nov 5, 2008
    Author Laura Claridge discusses *Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners*, the first authoritative biography of the woman who created a standard of behavior for America. In this biography, Claridge explores why, after 50 years and a checkered past, Emily Post still has an enormous influence on how we think society should behave.
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  • The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War

    Thu, Apr 24, 2008
    Frances Richey discusses her book of poetry, *The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War*, a personal exploration of the daily feelings a mother experiences while her child goes off to war and a family's struggle to overcome ideological differences in the face of a greater cause.
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  • A Voyage Long and Strange: From Columbus to Plymouth Rock

    Wed, May 14, 2008
    Tony Horwitz discusses *A Voyage Long and Strange*, in which he attempts to understand what happened in the Americas between Columbus' arrival and the Mayflower's landing on Plymouth Rock. During this time, vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs, among others, roamed the unknown continent in search of grapes, gold, converts, and even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed to locate their treasure, their adventures and exploits left an indelible impression on those they met, peoples who would eventually come face to face with the English settlers.
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  • Randall Kennedy: Sellout

    Wed, Jan 30, 2008
    Author Randall Kennedy grapples with a stigma of our racial discourse that is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in black America: "selling out," or racial betrayal. The new book, which comes in the wake of his controversial national best-seller, *Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word*, shows how usage of the word "sellout" bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.
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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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  • 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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  • Alice Hoffman: Skylight Confessions

    Wed, Jan 24, 2007
    Alice Hoffman reads from her new novel *Skylight Confessions*, about three generations of a family haunted by love. Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate seems to be playing a trick on the night when John Moody knocks on her door to ask for directions. Opposites who cannot understand each other, they are drawn to one another even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their marriage is dangerous territory, tracing a map that no one should follow.
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