Fannie Flagg
When faced with the prospect of writing a research paper on an important female artist for English 224, I mentally seesawed from name to another. I narrowed it down to an author immediately but then I was stumped. This one I didn't like, that one I liked but couldn't find enough material on, and finally, the one I neither liked nor understood! So, like the good student I am, I promptly moved on to an easier assignment - a movie assignment. It was when I got a hankering to watch Fried Green Tomatoes that inspiration struck. I was reminded that Fannie Flagg wrote the book of the same name. I had recently read and enjoyed Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! and I knew this was someone that I wanted to learn more about.Fannie Flagg is an author that I both enjoy and admire. She has succeeded as an actress, a comedienne, a screenwriter, and an author. The tenacity and vitality she has shown in her careers and her personal life sends us the message that women are strong and capable people. She also uses her humor and storytelling ability to create characters that further that image and encourage women to be independent. She sends the message that if you want to accomplish something you must keep trying to ov
Flagg started her career as a morning-show hostess on WBRC-TV in Birmingham. She did not realize she was dyslexic until she was appearing as a regular on the TV show "The Match Game". When Universal Pictures released the film Fried Green Tomatoes, Flagg co-scripted the screenplay, receiving nominations for the Academy Award and Writers Guild of America Award, and winning the Scripters Award. When being asked why it took her twelve more years before the publication of her third novel, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, she said, "The movie was a huge hit - it scared the hell out of me" (ReadersOnly. ' I stopped then and there and decided to be a full time writer" (Reynolds). As she was doing comedy, her father suggested a silly name to set the mood, and her grandfather remembered vaudeville and that Fannie was a name that a lot of comediennes took.
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