Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell
Mitchell in 1941
Mitchell in 1941
BornMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
(1900-11-08)November 8, 1900
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedAugust 16, 1949(1949-08-16) (aged 48)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Resting placeOakland Cemetery
Pen namePeggy Mitchell
OccupationJournalist, novelist
EducationSmith College
GenreRomance novel, Historical fiction, epic novel
Notable worksGone with the Wind
Lost Laysen
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Novel (1937)
National Book Award (1936)
Spouse
Berrien Upshaw
(m. 1922; div. 1924)
John Marsh
(m. 1925)
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ParentsEugene M. Mitchell
Maybelle Stephens
RelativesAnnie Fitzgerald Stephens (grandmother)
Joseph Mitchell (nephew)
Mary Melanie Holliday (cousin)
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)[2] 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[3] 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.

  1. ^ "Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel ~ Biography of Margaret Mitchell | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. March 29, 2012. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "Margaret Mitchell | American novelist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "5 Honors Awarded on the Year's Books: ...". The New York Times. February 26, 1937. p. 23.