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The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

990 Peachtree St.
Atlanta, GA 30309
United States

(404) 249-7015

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Web site: http://www.margaretmitchellhouse.com/

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Description: ADMISSION FOR ALL LECTURES IS $5 FOR MEMBERS AND $10 FOR NONMEMBERS, UNLESS OTHERWSIE NOTED. Reservations are requested for all lectures. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (404)814-4150.

The Literary Center at the Margaret Mitchell House offers a variety of lectures throughout the year showcasing award-winning authors who share insight into their latest publication.

Operated by the Atlanta History Center, the Margaret Mitchell House features guided tours of the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind, a Gone With the Wind movie exhibition, an exhibition showcasing the life and times of one of America’s most famous authors, and the Margaret Mitchell gift shop. Throughout the year, enjoy a variety of programs presented by the Literary Center at the Margaret Mitchell House. Designed to honor and preserve the legacy of Margaret Mitchell, the Literary Center hosts regular programs with award-winning authors, as well as annual creative writing classes for adults and youth, and community initiatives that engage younger generations in the process of writing, reading, and reciting literature, such as the Big Read and Poetry Out Loud.

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Lena Horne! Now you're talking. I am there. never been to Margaret Mitchell House, and I should have been. Thanks LT.
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Upcoming events

Janice Y. K. Lee (January 11 at 7:00pm)
Janice Y. K. Lee on tour for The Piano Teacher.
This tale of two love affairs in mid-century Hong Kong explores colonial pretensions during World War II. An Englishman, Will Truesdale, arrives in Hong Kong in 1941 and falls into a passionate relationship with a beautiful Eurasian socialite, Trudy Liang. When the Japanese invade, Will is interned and ... (more)Trudy has to expend her energy on her own survival. After the war, Claire Pendleton, comes to Hong Kong with her British civil servant husband. She begins giving piano lessons to the daughter of a rich Chinese couple and falls in love with their driver, Will. As both stories unfold, we learn about the complex web of lies, love, politics and war in Hong Kong in the 1950’s.
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Beth Hoffman (January 21 at 7:00pm)
Beth Hoffman reads from Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel full of humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, who was once their town’s Vidalia Onion Queen but is now a laughingstock in the community. When her mom ... (more)is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. Her unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, takes her under her wing by whisking her away to Savannah – a new world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity; that seems to be run entirely by women. CeeCee meets an eclectic group of women who entertain and enthrall her for an entire summer helping her to move beyond her past. Hoffman’s novel explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship, giving us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
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Past events

Joshilyn Jackson (March 4 at 6:00pm)
Joshilyn Jackson discusses The Girl Who Stopped Swimming.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Tuesday, March 4
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Susan Vreeland (March 11 at 6:00pm)
Susan Vreeland discusses Luncheon of the Boating Party.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Tuesday, March 11
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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John Marks (March 13 at 6:00pm)
John Marks discusses Reasons to Believe.
With special guest Craig Detweiler.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Thursday, March 13
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Pearl Cleage (March 18 at 6:00pm)
Pearl Cleage discusses Seen it All and Done the Rest.
Presented by Capella University.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Tuesday, March 18
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Douglas A. Blackmon (March 31 at 6:00pm)
Douglas A. Blackmon discusses Slavery by Another Name.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Monday, March 31
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Nick Taylor (April 3 at 6:00pm)
Nick Taylor discusses The Disagreement.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Thursday, April 3
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Alice Hoffman (April 16 at 6:00pm)
Alice Hoffman discusses The Third Angel.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Wednesday, April 16
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Elizabeth Strout (April 16 at 6:00pm)
Elizabeth Strout discusses Olive Kitteridge.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Wednesday, April 16
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members
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Wendy Wax (June 3 at 6:00pm)
Wendy Wax on tour for The Accidental Bestseller.
6pm reception. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Once upon a time, four aspiring authors met at a writers’ conference. Mallory St. James is a workaholic whose novels support her lavish lifestyle. Tanya Mason juggles jobs, kids, and a difficult mother. Faye Truett is the wife of a ... (more)televangelist and author of inspirational romances – no one would ever guess her explosive secret. Kendall Aims’ career is on the skids, as is her marriage. Her sales have fallen, her editor can barely feign interest in her work, and her husband is cheating on her. Wendy Wax is the author of seven novels, including Single in Suburbia and Hostile Makeover, from which excerpt were printed in Cosmopolitan. Wax lives in suburban Atlanta with her husband and teenage sons.
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Gigi Levangie Grazer (June 18 at 6:00pm)
Gigi Levangie Grazer promotes Queen Takes King.
6pm reception. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Food Samples provided by Canoe Restaurant. Hell breaks loose when New York real estate titan Jacks Power decides to divorce Cynthia, a former ballerina and Park Avenue princess, to marry Lara, his mistress and America’s favorite morning ... (more)news anchor. Power gets what he wants, but what if what he wants isn’t what he needs? Queen Takes King is a funny, sexy, take-no-prisoner exploration of what happens when the king and queen of Manhattan divorce after a 25-year marriage. Gigi Levangie Grazer is the author of three novels, including Rescue Me, Maneater,and The Starter Wife. The Starter Wife was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning USA Network miniseries starring Debra Messing and a subsequent television series.Maneater was adapted for a Lifetime miniseries starring Sarah Chalke. Grazer also wrote the screenplay for Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Grazer’s articles have appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Glamour. She lives in Los Angeles with her two children and three miniature dachshunds.
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An Evening with Janis Kearney (July 15 at 7:00pm)
Janis Kearney discusses Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist.
Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Following a journey that led her from the cotton fields of Lincoln County, Arkansas, to the West Wing of the White House, writer, columnist, and oral historian Janis Kearney discusses her experiences during nearly six years as President Clinton’s White House diarist. ... (more)The fourteenth of nineteen children born into a sharecropping family in the delta region of southeastern Arkansas, Kearney and her siblings were taught by their parents to dream and to work toward fulfilling their dreams. Kearney published the historic Arkansas State Press for a number of years before joining Clinton's administration as his personal diarist, the first such presidential appointment. Kearney is the author of books and articles, including Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist, Cotton Field of Dreams, and Once Upon a Time, There was a Girl: A Murder at Mobile Bay.
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James Gavin (July 22 at 6:00pm)
James Gavin discusses Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne.
6pm reception. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Sponsored by Swift Currie From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy, but bigoted, hotels of Las Vegas, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits ... (more)of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography. Often limited to guest singing appearances in Hollywood musicals, “the beautiful Lena Horne,” was a pioneering African American star in the 1940s and 1950s. Gavin offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne, who inspired Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin. Horne’s frustrations with racism and with tumultuous childhood left wounds too deep to heal and the woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. Drawing on a wealth of new material and hundreds of interviews, including Horne herself, Gavin give us the defining portrait of Horne.
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Sarah Dunant (July 28 at 6:00pm)
Sarah Dunant promotes Sacred Hearts.
6pm doors open. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. The year is 1570, and in the northern Italian city of Ferrara, in the convent of Santa Caterina, one hundred women live inside God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. ... (more)Sarah Dunant’s new novel, Sacred Hearts, begins with the dramatic arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice, Serafina, whose forced admission into the convent sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the institution to its core. Sarah Dunant is the author of the international bestseller The Birth of Venus, which has received major acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her earlier novels include three Hannah Wolfe crime thrillers, as well as Snowstorms in a Hot Climate, Transgressions, and Mapping the Edge. She has two daughters and lives in London and Florence.
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George Dawes Green (August 4 at 7:00pm)
George Dawes Green promotes Ravens.
Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. In Ravens, we meet the Boatwrights, a Georgia family that has won over $300 million in the lottery. We also meet Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko, two would-be crooks trying to claim the prize money for themselves by any means, including holding the Boatwright family ... (more)hostage. George Dawes Green is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Caveman’s Valentine and The Juror. The Caveman’s Valentine was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and won a 1994 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Juror was a 1995 New York Times bestseller and the basis of a Columbia Pictures motion picture. Green is the founder of the Moth, an organization dedicated to promoting the art of storytelling.
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Nancy Grace (August 20 at 7:00pm)
Nancy Grace promotes The Eleventh Victim.
Psychology student Hailey Dean’s world changes when her fiancé is murdered. Dean fights back the only way she knows how, by prosecuting violent crime in court. Dedicating her life to justice, however, takes a toll through years of courtroom battles and from victims who call out from crime scene photos ... (more)and autopsy tables. Yet, as she grows weary, a serial killer unlike any she has encountered begins to stalk Atlanta, targeting young prostitutes, and each murder bearing his horrific mark. The courtroom battle will be Hailey’s last. Afterward, Dean seeks a new career as a therapist and moves to Manhattan, where she finally leaves her ghosts behind. As her clients are brutally murdered by a copycat using the same M.O. as the Atlanta killer, Hailey is forced to match wits not only against a killer, but the NYPD. Unless she returns to her true calling and solves the case, innocent people will die at the hands of a killer who plans to get her before she can get him.
Event location: Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia, 30305-1366
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Jack Riggs (August 27 at 7:00pm)
Jack Riggs reads from The Fireman’s Wife.
In the summer of 1970 in the South Carolina low country, wife and mother Cassie Johnson can no longer ignore the sense her life has gone astray after sixteen years of marriage. Her husband, Peck, is the town’s fire chief, but the hours he spends saving others may spell destruction for his own marriage. ... (more)In the arms of one of Peck's colleagues, Cassie reconsiders their life on the marsh. She decides to try a new life when their daughter attends a softball camp where Cassie grew up and Cassie’s lover moves nearby. The Fireman’s Wife sensitively portrays a family’s struggle to stay together and their realization that it may be better to let go. Atlanta-based novelist Jack Riggs is the 2009 recipient of the award for Georgia Author of the Year for Fiction by the Georgia Writers Association for The Fireman’s Wife. Riggs also received the same award for his 2003 novel, When the Finch Rises. He is a professor and Writer-in-residence at Georgia Perimeter College's Writer's Institute. Riggs grew up in North Carolina and lives in Decatur with his wife and two children.
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Anita Diamant (September 16 at 6:00pm)
Anita Diamant on tour for Day After Night.
6pm doors open. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. The bestselling author of Good Harbor and The Last Days of Dogtown returns to the geography of The Red Tent and re-imagines a true event in the aftermath of World War II in an intensely dramatic, profoundly sad new ... (more)novel. Atlit is a holding camp for “illegal” immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Anita Diamant is a prizewinning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting magazine. She is the author of six books about contemporary Jewish practice, one collection of autobiographical essays and three prior novels including The Red Tent, national bestseller and Book Sense Book of the Year.
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Richard Russo (September 30 at 7:00pm)
Richard Russo reads from That Old Cape Magic.
Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement . . . a masterpiece”— Richard Russo now tells the story of a marriage, and all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the ... (more)promises of youth. Thirty years ago, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin made a plan for their future that has largely been fulfilled. He left Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his parents had aspired to, and now the two of them are back on the Cape—where he’d also spent his childhood vacations—to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. Sure, Jack’s been driving around with his father’s ashes in the trunk, though his mother’s very much alive and often on his cell phone. Laura’s boyfriend seems promising, but be careful what you pray for, especially if it happens to come true. A year later, at her wedding, Jack has another urn in the car, and both he and Joy have brought new dates. Full of every family feeling imaginable, wonderfully comic and profoundly involving, That Old Cape Magic is surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written. Richard Russo is the author of six previous novels and The Whore’s Child, a collection of stories. He was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls. He lives with his wife in Camden, Maine, and in Boston.
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Andy Williams (October 15 at 7:00pm)
Andy Williams promotes Moon River and Me.
Enjoy an evening with Andy Williams, one of the world’s best-loved vocalists and entertainers for nearly seventy years, discusses his memoir, Moon River and Me. Williams will take the stage to share stories from his seven remarkable decades in show business, including memories of Judy Garland, ... (more)John Huston, Jack Lemmon, John Lennon, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Barbra Streisand. The evening with Andy Williams will be combined with songs in his famous baritone voice throughout the program. Admission is $40 for members and $50 for nonmembers. Reservations are required; seating is limited. Ticket includes an autographed copy of Moon River and Me. To purchase tickets, please call (404) 814-4150.
Event location: Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia, 30305-1366
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Rita Mae Brown (October 27 at 7:00pm)
Rita Mae Brown promotes Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small.
Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. There’s no disputing the fact that Rita Mae Brown has lived a dynamic life full of incredible experiences – she’s been a literary icon, groundbreaking feminist, Hollywood darling, and now a working farmer tending thousands of acres in rural Virginia. But throughout ... (more)it all, one thing she has always been is a passionate lover of animals - from the cat that purred her to sleep in her cradle to the foxhounds and horses that fill her barn, an animal companion has always been by her side. In her charming and heartfelt new memoir Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small, she discusses for the first time the life-sustaining relationships with her furry and feathered friends, as well as the important lessons she’s learned from them throughout the years – even confessing that “much of what I am is a result of a life with and close to animals.”
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Richard Paul Evans (October 29 at 7:00pm)
Richard Paul Evans promotes The Christmas List.
A heartwarming and inspirational novel from the #1 best-selling author of The Christmas Box and numerous other books, including The Gift and Finding Noel. There are more than fourteen million copies of his books in print. Richard Paul Evans is the author of The Christmas Box, ... (more)his quiet story of parental love and the true meaning of Christmas, which made history when it became simultaneously the #1 bestselling hardcover and paperback book in the nation. His thirteen novels have each appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.
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David Wroblewski (November 9 at 7:00pm)
David Wroblewski reads from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar’s lifelong friend and ... (more)ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar’s paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles’ once peaceful home. When tragedy strikes, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm--and into Edgar’s mother’s affections. David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes--the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain--create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection.
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Jeff Shaara (November 16 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Shaara promotes No Less Than Victory.
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. ... (more)In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler’s goal: divide the Allied armies and capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in the Allied command. Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last gasp by Hitler’s forces that becomes a horrific slugging match. Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their enemy, and through the eyes of Germany’s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s dreams. No Less Than Victory further solidifies Shaara’s reputation as this era’s most accomplished author of historical military fiction.
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Jennifer Burns (November 18 at 6:00pm)
Jennifer Burns discusses Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
6pm doors open. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. Goddess of the Market follows novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The ... (more)Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She has published extensively on the history of conservative thought, and her podcasted lectures on American history have won an appreciative worldwide audience.
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Mireille Guiliano (December 2 at 7:00pm)
Mireille Guiliano discusses Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility.
New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat has now written every woman’s guide to navigating the work world, to living the good life, and how to enjoy every minute of it. Using her distinctive French woman’s philosophy and style, Mireille Guiliano took Veuve Clicquot to ... (more)the top of the luxury market. In her newest book she draws on those experiences and gives women practical advice on how to make the most of work without skimping on everything else. She encourages women to identify their own passions and talents, improve their communication skills, balance work and life while sharing her secrets for achieving happiness and success and maximizing pleasure. Not just another “business” book, Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire is a book about life: How to make the most of it, and how to find balance when working long days and trying to be happy and fulfilled at the same time. Guiliano shares her thoughts on everything from acing a job interview, to surviving the indignities of a long business trip, to hosting a business dinner in a restaurant, and segues easily from the small details to the big picture. In essence, she makes her readers feel like they are her trusted, longtime confidantes. Born and raised in France, Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get Fat and French Women for All Seasons, is the former CEO of Clicquot, Inc. and has appeared on countless national television programs, including Oprah, Dateline, and the Today Show, while being profiled in a myriad of publications, including the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek.
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