
Margaret Mitchell
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1900-11-09
Day of Death
1949-08-16 (48 years old)
Place of Birth
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Margaret Mitchell
Biography
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900–1949) was an American novelist and journalist best known for her only novel published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
Gone with the Wind was adapted into the 1939 film of the same name, which has been considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made and also received the Academy Award for Best Picture during the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony.
Known For
Acting
(2012)
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
as Herself (archive footage)
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self - (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew
(1939)
Gone with the Wind
Novel