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Margaret Mitchell

(1900–1949) Novelist United States

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Margaret Mitchell was a novelist from the United States, best known for Gone With the Wind.

Quick Facts About Margaret Mitchell

Born
November 8, 1900
Died
August 16, 1949
Nationality
United States
Profession
Novelist
Notable works
Gone With the Wind
Known for
Gone with the Wind, Lost Laysen
Spouse
John Robert Marsh

About Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was 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. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Book Award Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Georgia Women of Achievement

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