Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and often used the name Peggy. His childhood was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and his mother's relatives who lived through the war and the years that followed. They told her everything about the war, except that the Confederates had lost it. He was ten years old before making this discovery. After graduating from Washington Seminary, now known as The Westminster Schools, she attended Smith College but dropped out in 1918. She returned to Atlanta to care for her family after her mother's death earlier that year due to the great coronavirus pandemic. flu of 1918. Mitchell used this pivotal scene from his own life to dramatize Scarlett's discovery of her mother's death from typhus when Scarlett returns to Tara. Shortly thereafter, she joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal, where she wrote a weekly column for the paper's Sunday edition. Mitchell is said to have begun writing Gone with the Wind while bedridden and nursing a broken ankle. Her husband, John Marsh, brought home historical books from the public library to entertain her as she recovered. Finally he said to her, "Peggy, if you want another book, why don't you write your own?" He used his encyclopedic knowledge of the Civil War and used dramatic moments from his own life to write his epic novel, typing it on an old Remington typewriter. She initially called her novel "Pansy O'Hara" and Tara was "Fontenoy Hall". Mitchell wrote for fun, with the solid support of her husband, but kept her literary endeavors a secret from all her friends. She was... center of paper... actors: Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes, all created here by the deft hand of Margaret Mitchell, in this, her first novel .The New York Times Book ReviewThis is without undoubtedly one of the most notable early novels produced by an American writer. It's also one of the best.ReadersClub.orgThe true American classic that everyone should read. A spoiled Southern belle witnesses her world being destroyed by war as the man she loves marries another woman. However, Scarlett isn't the type to sit back and watch things happen; he does everything in his power to get what he wants. But in the end... does he really know what he wants? Does he love Ashley or the wily Rhett Butler? And will he be able to take back what he threw away with both hands? Set during the Civil War, this book is all excitement, love, and heartache and will captivate readers.