Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American novelist, born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she grew up hearing the stories of relatives who had lived through the Civil War. She left Smith College after her mother’s death in 1919, and in the early 1920s wrote feature articles for The Atlanta Journal’s Sunday magazine. While recovering from an ankle injury in the mid-1920s she began work on a long novel of the war and Reconstruction, which she wrote over several years and kept largely private. Published in 1936 as Gone with the Wind, it became one of the best-selling novels ever written, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was made into a celebrated film in 1939. It was the only novel she published. During the Second World War she worked for the Red Cross and the war bond drives. She died in 1949, after being struck by a car on Peachtree Street in Atlanta.
