Literature · Media · Film · 1900–1949
Born: 8 November 1900 · Died: 16 August 1949 · Age at death: 48
Margaret Mitchell died aged 48. She was born on 8 November 1900 and died on 16 August 1949.
Author of the best-selling historical novel Gone with the Wind
Did you know?She wrote much of her famous book while recovering from a serious ankle injury that left her unable to walk for months.
Margaret Mitchell wrote one book and it became one of the best-selling novels ever. Scarlett O'Hara's fierce survival through war and ruin gripped readers in the Depression. The 1939 film made it a global legend. Today the book is also read critically for its nostalgic picture of the slave-owning South. It portrays enslaved people in racist terms. Mitchell herself quietly funded scholarships for black medical students. Her novel remains popular and contested.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.
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American novelist, born 1900
Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta on 8 November 1900.
She wrote Gone with the Wind in 1936.
It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
It was her only novel published in her lifetime.
Career highlights
Did you know?She was killed by a speeding car in Atlanta in 1949.
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