Even when Patricia was known lovingly as the "peanut" she was a bigger handful than an elephant. She was an energetic and lively girl with a powerful imagination. The author claims it spelled trouble, or future writer.

Fannie Flagg's writing and show business career began in the fifth grade when she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a three-act comedy called "The Whopee Girls," which brought the audience to hysteria, but got her expelled from school for using the wo

Fannie Flagg, (as she later changed her name to), was quite good at acting and comedy, but when she decided to take up writing in her late thirties, she never knew that her book would be such a success. The novel, received rave reviews, high praise and gained more serious recognition by critics and the public eye overall. Being so, producer Jon Avnet turned it into a movie, starring Mary Stuart Masterson.

In real life, there actually was a cafe ran by two women companions in a small town near Birmingham, Alabama around the time that Fannie Flagg was growing up, but it was not called the Whistle Stop Cafe. It was known as the Irondale Cafe.

Fannie Flagg once told an interviewer why she writes, she explained: "I am a keeper of dreams, a collector of illusions locked for a lifetime inside the obser

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