Margaret Mitchell
Novelist, Author
1900 – 1949
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Who was Margaret Mitchell?
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1900
Atlanta - Also known as
- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- John Marsh
(1925/07/04 - 1949) - Berrien K. Upshaw
(1922/09/02 - 1924/10/16)
- John Marsh
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Smith College
- Lived in
- Atlanta
- Died
- Aug 16, 1949
Grady Memorial Hospital
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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