Fannie Flagg "Fried Green Tomatoes" Interview with Steel Magnolias Podcast

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Season 2, Episode 43
Today we are eating fried green tomatoes with southern author Fannie Flagg as she tells us all about her thoughts on the south and the sequel she just released to “Fried Green Tomatoes” titled “The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop.”
Fannie Flagg’s career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls, and she has not stopped since. At age nineteen she began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote for and appeared on Candid Camera. She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven; I Still Dream About You; The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion; and The Whole Town’s Talking. Flagg’s script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Fannie Flagg is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. She lives happily in California and Alabama.
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[@lenahorvath7926]

Love the new book! Wonder Boy of the whistle Stop...please keep writing. ❤

[@shakespeareswingman]

💋....I remember meeting Fannie in 1981 when she visited Tro Harper Bookstore in San Francisco. She had just written " Daisy Fay..." and she wanted to see see how it was selling. It was so lovely to meet her. She is and always has been so beautiful, with that lovely twinkle in her eyes. Such a beautiful soul and such a talented writer. God luv 'er, as the Irish would say.

[@sharonnorthern1525]

Fannie looks just like she did when I was a little kid. Such an incredible, talented, lady.

[@maha77]

One of the most incredible movies of all time, written so well

[@sharonhoyt2133]

I adore Fannie Flagg...thanks so much for this interview. Fried Green Tomatos is the best...but I love all of her books.