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MARGARET MUNNERLYN MITCHELL was born in November 8, 1900, Atlanta .She died in Aug. 16, 1949. Atlanta in full MARGARET
MUNNERLYN MITCHELL American author of the enormously popular novel Gone with
the Wind.Mitchell attended Washington Seminary in her native Atlanta, Georgia,
before enrolling at Smith College in 1918. When her mother died the next year,
she returned home. Between 1922 and 1926 she was a writer and reporter for the
Atlanta Journal. After an ankle injury in 1926 she left the paper and, for the
next 10 years, worked slowly on a romantic novel about the Civil War and
Reconstruction as seen from a Southern point of view. The novel featured
Scarlett O'Hara, a strong-willed coquette and jezebel. From her family Mitchell
had absorbed the history of the South, the tragedy of the war, and the romance
of the Lost Cause. She worked at her novel sporadically, composing episodes out
of sequence and later fitting them together. She apparently had little thought
of publication at first, and for six years after it was substantially finished
the novel lay unread. But in 1935 Mitchell was persuaded to submit her
manuscript for publication.It appeared in 1936 as Gone with the Wind (quoting a
line from the poem "Cynara" by Ernest Dowson). Within six months
1,000,000 copies had been sold; 50,000 copies were sold in one day. It went on
to sell more copies than any other novel in U.S. publishing history, with sales
passing 12 million by 1965, and was eventually translated into 25 languages and
sold in 40 countries. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The
motion-picture rights were sold for $50,000. The film, starring Vivien Leigh
and Clark Gable and produced by David O. Selznick, premiered in Atlanta in
December 1939 after an unprecedented period of advance promotion, including the
highly publicized search for an actress to play Scarlett. It won nine major
Oscars and two special Oscars at the Academy Awards and for two decades reigned
as the top moneymaking film of all time. Mitchell, who never adjusted to the
celebrity that had befallen her and who never attempted another book, died
after an automobile accident in 1949. Four decades after Mitchell's death, her
estate permitted the writing of a sequel by Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett: The
Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1991), which was
generally unfavourably appraised by critics.
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