About
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1900. After attending Smith College, she worked as a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal from 1922 to 1926. While recovering from an ankle injury, she began writing her only novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The book was an immediate success, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and the National Book Award. Adapted into a 1939 film, it won ten Academy Awards. Mitchell spent her later years managing international rights and advocating for copyright protection. She died in 1949 after being struck by a car.
* 1900-11-08 — † 1949-08-16
Major works
- Gone with the Wind (1936)novel
Key milestones
- 1937Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1939Film adaptation of her novel, which won ten Academy Awards.
- 2000Inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
Themes
American Civil WarSurvival and resilienceLove and passionSocial changeFemale identity
Sources: britannica.com · oxfordreference.com
