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Mitchell biographer Marianne Walker, author of Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind, believes that those who attack the book on these grounds have not read it. She said that the popular 1939 film "promotes a false notion of the Old South ".
(Book 619 From 1001 Books) - Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.
Apr 7, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize. Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy.
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'Gone with The Wind' by Margaret Mitchell chronicles the life of sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara, rife with teenage exuberance and accustomed to getting everything and every man she wants. About the Book. Protagonist: Scarlett O’Hara. Publication Date: 1936. Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction. Rating: 3.9/5. Introduction. Summary.
Jun 30, 2011 · Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind in a tiny ground-floor apartment in Atlanta that she liked to call "the dump." Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the apartment on their...
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No, Gone with the Wind is not based on a true story. It is a fictional story. However, some of the characters and events in the novel were similar to those in Margaret Mitchell’s real life and it is possible that she projected some of her real-life experiences into her writing.
