Guide Note:Margaret Mitchell is best known as the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone With The Wind which was published in 1936. Gone With The Wind sold more than 28 million copies and the film version (1939) was the highest-grossing film with a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
Fast Facts:
- Born: November 08, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia
- Birth Name: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell – called Peggy
- Father was a historian
- Novels made into motion pictures: Gone With The Wind
- Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937
- Worked as a volunteer with the Red Cross during
- "Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." -Margaret Mitchell
- Died: August 16, 1949 Five days after being struck by a car while crossing the intersection at Peachtree and 13th Street
- Buried at Oakland Cemetery.