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Fannie Flagg: Fannie Flagg, the author of at the Whistle Stop Cafe, has had an astounding life. As a child she was named Patricia Neal and was a native to Birmingham, Alabama. She was born there in September of 1941, and was the daughter of a small business ow ....

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.... 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. There is a striking resemblance between Fannie Flagg's young life as Patricia Neal and her main character, Idgie Threadgood. Both young women grew up in the same area in Alabama with the same tenacity and vitality to their personality. The b ....