MOBILE, Alabama-- According to beloved Southern scribe Fannie Flagg, 69, her current book-promoting odyssey is informally called the "Catch me while I'm still alive tour." That was just one of ...

Alabama icon Fannie Flagg’s retirement hasn’t worked out so far. Whenever the 80-year-old author and comedian tries to step away from her writing career, fans clamor for another book.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Acclaimed southern author Fannie ... old." Flagg's fingers rarely stopped working in between customers or after all were gone. She signed extras, and Free2Teach still has ...

But Alabama native Fannie Flagg is best known today as the author of “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” and other funny, sweet-natured novels about small-town life in the South.

In her new book, "The Whole Town's Talking," Fannie Flagg tells the entire history of ... as Katrina joins him in 1916 — and soon the conversation at Still Meadows cemetery starts percolating.