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    MARGARET MITCHELL

    author. 

    1994 Inductee, Georgia Women of Achievement

    “I vaguely recall that I just sat down and began to write a book to occupy my time. And after I finished it and was able to walk again, I put the book away and forgot about it for years.”
                                                                    - Margaret Mitchell

    Born in Atlanta in 1900, Margaret Mitchell grew up surrounded by relatives who told endless tales of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She knew those who were relics of a destroyed culture, and those who had put aside gentility for survival.

     

    Her mother instilled in her that education was her only security. She attended Smith College but had to come home when her mother fell ill. After her mother’s death, Margaret resolved that she had to make a

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    Margaret Mitchell

    American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)

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

    Margaret Mitchell

    Mitchell in 1941

    BornMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
    (1900-11-08)November 8, 1900
    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    DiedAugust 16, 1949(1949-08-16) (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 (1937)
    National Book Award (1936)
    Spouse

    Berrien Upshaw

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    (m. 1922; div. 1924)​

    John Marsh

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    (m. 1925)​
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    ParentsEugene M. Mitchell
    Maybelle Stephens
    RelativesAnnie Fitzgerald Stephens (grandmother)
    Joseph Mitchell (nephew)
    Mary Melanie Holli
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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 1900, 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 1922, writing beneath the byline “Peggy Mitchell.” She married her second husband, John Marsh, in 1925. 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 1936. It sold more than 1 million copies in its first six months. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and then sold the movie rights to her book for $50,000 — the most money ever paid for a manuscript up to that time.

    She died tragically in 1949, hit bygd a cab on her way to a movie.

    The Georgian who wrote the best-selling novel in American publishing