Margaret Mitchell | |
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| 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) |
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| 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)[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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Margaret Mitchell | American novelist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- ^ "5 Honors Awarded on the Year's Books: ...". The New York Times. February 26, 1937. p. 23.