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Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta-born American novelist whose only published novel, Gone With the Wind, became a global bestseller and a landmark of popular fiction.
Gone With the Wind
Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind was published in 1936 and became one of the best-known American books of the twentieth century. Its wide readership and screen adaptation made Mitchell a major public figure.
Journalism and recognition
Before the novel, Mitchell worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937; the New Georgia Encyclopedia documents her life and place in Georgia literary history.
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