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Mitchell was a journalist for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine when she took a leave to recover from “a series of injuries,” according to the Margaret Mitchell House,...
Mitchell and her husband John Marsh, a copy editor by trade, edited the final version of the novel. Mitchell wrote the book's final moments first and then wrote the events that led to them. [49] Gone with the Wind was published in June 1936.
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 [3] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.
Apr 7, 2024 · 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. In particular it is the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a headstrong Southern belle
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Nov 1, 2001 · 7.3K views. By Christina Lewis. Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption, people who fought their way through hard times triumphantly and came out survivors. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, “I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didn’t.”.
by Margaret Mitchell. Form and Content. PDF Cite Share. Gone with the Wind is a historical romance that uses Scarlett O’Hara as the symbol for Reconstruction in the South. Like Atlanta,...
Jan 20, 2004 · Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell ’s 1936 novel of the Civil War (1861-65) and Reconstruction in Georgia, Gone With the Wind, occupies an important place in any history of twentieth-century American literature.
