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Alison Arngrim Signs 'Confessions of A Prairie Bitch' at Outwrite
08/11/2010 7:30 pm
08/11/2010 8:30 pm
Alison Arngrim signs Confessions of a Prairie Bitch
at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Wed, Aug. 11, 2010
7:30 PM
GET TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE: Purchase Your Book Early and Receive a V.I.P. Ticket!
For seven years she played the little girl everyone loved to hate. Actress and social activist ALISON ARNGRIM visits Outwrite with her comic memoir CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (HarperCollins) on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, at 7:30 p.m. Reading from and signing copies of the new book, Arngrim shares her experiences on the hit television series, Little House on the Prairie.
Arngrim recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of Little House: Michael Landon’s “unsaintly” habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie’s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.
Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life’s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the “secret” her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her “Little House husband” and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.
Arngrim recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of Little House: Michael Landon’s “unsaintly” habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie’s mom) appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.
Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life’s challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the “secret” her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her “Little House husband” and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.
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Location:
- Street:
- Outwrite Bookstore
- Additional:
- 991 Piedmont Ave NE
- City:
- Atlanta ,
- Province:
- Georgia
- Postal Code:
- 30309-4108
- Country:
- United States
