Books by Margaret Mitchell
Born: 1900; Died: 08/16/1949Margaret Mitchell Biography & Notes
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the author of the immensely successful novel Gone With the Wind, which was published June 30th 1936. (The book was dramatized by David O. Selznick and released three years later. The official premiere of the film occurred in Atlanta in December, 1939.)
Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans, and her maternal relatives, who lived through the war and the years to follow. They told her everything about the war except that the Confederates had lost it. She was ten years old before making this discovery.
She attended Smith College, but withdrew following her final exams in 1919. She returned to Atlanta to take over the household after her mother's death earlier that year. Shortly afterward, she joined the staff of The Atlanta Journal where she wrote a weekly column for the newspaper's Sunday edition.
She is reported to have begun writing Gone With the Wind while bedridden and nursing a broken ankle. The house where she lived while writing her manuscript is known today as "The Margaret Mitchell House". Located in Midtown Atlanta, it is a major tourist destination.
A prestigious newspaper writer as well as an author, Mitchell was struck by a speeding off-duty taxi driver as she crossed Peachtree Street with husband John Marsh in August 1949. She died five days later from her injuries.-
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Before Scarlett Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell by Margaret Mitchell ( 2000)
Celebrating the centennial of Margaret Mitchell's birth, a unique compilation of childhood writings by the acclaimed author of Gone With the Wind features short stories, fairy tales, journal entries, essays, and single-act plays, all penned from age eight to seventeen.
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Dynamo Going to Waste Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 by Margaret Mitchell ( 1989)
Gathers letters written by Mitchell to a college friend during the period, after her mother's death, that she ran her father's prominent Atlanta home.
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Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 1996)
A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.
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Gone With the Wind/Scarlett/Boxed Set by Alexandra Ripley, Margaret Mitchell ( 1993) |
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Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell ( 1997)
Written when Mitchell was 16, and given to her close friend, Henry Love Angel, this captivating tale of honor, adventure, and unrequited love introduces themes and characters that would later come to full flower in "Gone With the Wind". Photos.
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Margaret Mitchell Reporter by Patrick Allen, Margaret Mitchell ( 2000)
Provides insight to the author of "Gone With the Wind" through a collection of her early journalism for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, including interviews and columns that reflect life in Atlanta during the 1920's.
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949 by Margaret Mitchell, Richard Barksdale Harwell ( 1976) |
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Remember Me Constructing Immortality by Margaret Mitchell ( 2007) |
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Scarlett The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Alexandra Ripley, Margaret Mitchell ( 1992)
The long-awaited sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic novel is set in the reconstructionist South and answers the oft-asked question, "what happened next?" in the lives of Rhett and Scarlett. (Historical Fiction).
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Sparknotes Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ( 2003) |
