Fannie Flagg grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where she had close family ties to the Irondale Cafe, a restaurant that’s still ...

"The sweetness of the people in the South has kept me so supported all my life. I am so lucky in that other people may not have a home. I have a home to go home to, and I go home a lot. And it just ...

Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town's inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more ...

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