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    Margaret Mitchell

    American novelist and journalist (–)

    For other people named Margaret Mitchell, see Margaret Mitchell (disambiguation).

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    BornMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
    ()November 8,
    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    DiedAugust 16, () (aged&#;48)
    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Resting placeOakland Cemetery
    Pen namePeggy Mitchell
    OccupationJournalist, novelist
    EducationSmith College
    GenreRomance novel, Historical fiction, epic novel
    Notable worksGone with the Wind
    Lost Laysen
    Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Novel ()
    National Book Award ()
    Spouse

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    John Marsh

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    ParentsEugene M. Mitchell
    Maybelle Stephens
    RelativesAnnie Fitzgerald Stephens (grandmother)
    Joseph Mitchell (nephew)
    Mary Melanie Holliday (cousin)

    Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, – August 16, )[2]

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    Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone with the Wind,” is born

    On November 8, , Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind (), is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Mitchell worked as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal for six years. She quit after an ankle injury limited her mobility, and she devoted herself to her novel about the South during and after the Civil War. Her tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the shallow Southern belle transformed into ruthless survivor during the war, became the biggest American publishing sensation of its day. The book sold 1 million copies in its first six months in print, 8 million by the time Mitchell died in , and at least 25 million more to date.

    The book was made into an Oscar-winning movie in In , Warner Books purchased the rights to a Gone with the Wind sequel. The book, titled Scarlett, was written by Alexandra Ripley and published in Though not a critical success, the book became a bestseller and was made into a TV miniseries. The movie was c

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    November 8

    She just wanted to be known as Mrs. John Marsh.

    Margaret Mitchell was her maiden name. Born in Atlanta in , she lived away from the city only once, for a year, at Smith College. Her grandfather fought in the Civil War; her mother’s family was Irish Catholic, like the O’Hara’s of Tara.

    Mitchell went to work for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine in , writing beneath the byline “Peggy Mitchell.” She married her second husband, John Marsh, in For 10 years, in a small apartment she dubbed “the dump,” she worked on a novel set in Atlanta during the Civil War.

    Gone with the Wind was published in It sold more than 1 million copies in its first six months. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in , and then sold the movie rights to her book for $50, &#; the most money ever paid for a manuscript up to that time.

    She died tragically in , hit bygd a cab on her way to a movie.

    The Georgian who wrote the best-selling novel in American publishing history was born on November 8, , T