Margaret Mitchell
American novelist
Died when: 48 years 281 days (585 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) 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 Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 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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