USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Margaret Mitchell, in full Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, (born November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.-died August 16, 1949, Atlanta), American author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the Wind (1936).

Detailed explanation-2: -Margaret Mitchell, pictured above in 1941, started writing while recovering from an ankle injury in 1926. She had read her way through most of Atlanta’s Carnegie Library, so her husband brought home a typewriter and said: “Write your own book to amuse yourself.” The result was Gone with the Wind.

Detailed explanation-3: -Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell’s great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy.