Fannie Flagg is a writer and an actress 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; The Whole Town’s Talking; and The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop. Flagg’s script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award and for the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. She is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize.
