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Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from a slow-healing injury from an auto crash. In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor looking for new fiction, read her manuscript and saw that it could be a best-seller.
- June 30, 1936
- Macmillan Publishers (United States)
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.
- Journalist, novelist
- Romance novel, Historical fiction, epic novel
- Smith College (MA) (honoris causa)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies.
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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 wedding...
- Susan Stamberg
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 1, 2001 · 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.”
Aug 8, 1999 · Margaret Mitchell was 48 when she died on August 16th, 1949. Richard Cavendish | Published in History Today Volume 49 Issue 8 August 1999. Margaret Mitchell. At 8.15 on the mercilessly hot evening of August 11th, 1949, Peggy Mitchell Marsh and her husband John parked their car at the side of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
