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Margaret Mitchell
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09 Nov 1900
† 16 Aug 1949
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Biography
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American novelist and journalist best known for her only novel published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of newspaper articles writte...
Also Known As
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, Peggy Mitchell
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