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The actress, novelist, and USC Scripter® award winner presents her latest book, recording the post-WWII half-century in the life of a small town in Missouri.
Described as "utterly irresistible" Time Magazine, Fannie Flagg's newest novel, Standing in the Rainbow, presents a pageant of life in Elmwood Springs, MO, from 1946 to the present through the eyes of the town's population.
Flagg's first novel, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, was on The New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks and her second, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, was on the list for 36 weeks.
Flagg adapted her second novel into the Fried Green Tomatoes screenplay, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award® and the Writers Guild of America Screen Award for the script. She also won a USC Scripter® award for the novel and script. Flagg now serves on the board that selects nominees and winners for the honor that recognizes the authors of outstanding film adaptations.
Along with her literary works, audiences also recognize Flagg from her numerous television, theatrical, and motion picture performances. In film, she acted in Five Easy Pieces, Stay Hungry and, most recently, Crazy in Alabama. On the New York stage, she created roles in Patio Porch and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and played the lead in the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Doors for the luncheon open at 11:30 a.m. with seating at noon. The reading, free and open to the public, begins at 1 p.m. with a booksigning to follow.
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