Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist (1900–1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, 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.
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Born | Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900-11-08)November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | August 16, 1949(1949-08-16) (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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Mitchell was struck and killed by a speeding drunk driver in 1949.