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: -In preparing to write her best-selling novel, Gone With the Wind, Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell did extensive research on Georgia during the Civil War. She was influenced by Confederate veterans and others whose vivid memories of the period helped shape her narrative.

Detailed explanation-3: -Margaret Mitchell She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1957. Gone with the Wind has remained one of the bestselling books of all time. Mitchell, who hated being in the limelight, refused to publish another novel and had little time to reconsider-she died at age 49, after being struck by a car.