Fannie Flagg \'s career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls.
Fannie Flagg loves all animals, especially human beings, and lives happily in California and Alabama..
She also won the Harper Lee Prize for Fiction.
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.
She is the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook
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 .
She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater.
At age twenty she went to New York and immediately began writing and acting on Candid Camera, and made over seventy-five appearances on The Tonight Show .
At age nineteen she was already writing and producing television specials in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
Fannie Flagg \'s career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, titled The Whoopee Girls
