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Fannie Flagg
Birth at
21 September 1944
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Fannie Flagg is an American writer, born on September 21, 1944 in Irondale, Birmingham, USA. From a young age, little Fanny dreamed of writing fairy tales for children. The girl had problems at school due to a complex disease - dyslexia. When the girl was fourteen years old, she began performing on stage in the Birmingham Theatre Company. At the age of seventeen, the girl changed her name, taking a pseudonym when registering for "Actor's Equity" and began working under the name Fanny Flagg. The
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Fannie Flagg is an American writer, born on September 21, 1944 in Irondale, Birmingham, USA. From a young age, little Fanny dreamed of writing fairy tales for children. The girl had problems at school due to a complex disease - dyslexia. When the girl was fourteen years old, she began performing on stage in the Birmingham Theatre Company. At the age of seventeen, the girl changed her name, taking a pseudonym when registering for "Actor's Equity" and began working under the name Fanny Flagg. The real name of the writer – Patricia Neal, could not be used by her because the famous Oscar-winning actress already played under the same name.
After graduating from high school, Fanny entered the University of Alabama, and after university, the girl continued her studies at the Pittsburgh Theatre School. On her return from Pittsburgh, Flagg co-hosted a television program in Birmingham.
It was with the appearance on television that Fanny Flagg’s writing career began. In television, she worked on scripts for TV shows. In the television show “Hidden Camera”, Flagg herself developed the script and starred in episodic roles of this program. Fanny’s excellent acting abilities gave her the opportunity to star in the films: “Five Easy Plays”, which was released in 1970, where the actress starred together on the same set with Jack Nicholson, and in 1976 the audience saw Fanny Flagg in the film “Stay Hungry”. In 1999, Antonio Banberez’s film A Woman Without Rules was released, playing alongside Melanie Griffith. However, very soon Fanny made her final choice in favor of literature, not refusing to star in small episodic roles in movies.
Fanny wrote her first novel, Disy Fay and the Miracle Man, in 1981, which is called, it took the top line in the list of best-sellers and lasted in the leaders for ten weeks. Flagg’s second novel, Fried Green Tomatoes in the Semi-stanok Cafe, also became the leader among books and stayed at the top for 36 weeks. Based on this book, a movie hit was shot, the script for the film was written by Fanny Flagg herself and was nominated for an Oscar.
The writer currently resides in California, USA. /