Mitchell, Margaret: - Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist, and journalist.
She died at age 48 at Grady Hospital five days later on August 16 without fully regaining consciousness..
Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see the movie A Canterbury Tale on the evening of August 11, 1949.
She used parts of the manuscript to prop up a wobbly couch.
For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O\'Hara (prior to Gone with the Wind\'s publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett). 1928). 3 typewriter (c.
To aid her in her literary endeavors, John Marsh brought home a Remington Portable No.
Meanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife\'s mind occupied while she recovered from a slow-healing auto-crash injury; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead.
In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, Elizabeth Bennet\'s Gossip, which she continued to write until August.
A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell\'s girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published.
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.
Mitchell, Margaret: - Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist, and journalist
