Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell | |
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Mitchell in 1941 | |
| Born | Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 1949 (aged 48) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Oakland Cemetery |
| Pen name | Peggy Mitchell |
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Education | Smith College |
| Genre | Romance novel, Historical fiction, epic novel |
| Notable works | Gone with the Wind Lost Laysen |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1937) National Book Award (1936) |
| Spouse | Berrien Upshaw
(m. 1922; div. 1924)John Marsh (m. 1925) |
| Parents | Eugene M. Mitchell Maybelle Stephens |
| Relatives | Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (grandmother) Joseph Mitchell (nephew) Mary Melanie Holliday (cousin) |
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.