margaret mitchell

     

In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"

Trivia about margaret mitchell

  • The apartment house she lived in while writing the novel is adjacent to the museum
  • Her recently-discovered work "Lost Laysen" was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of "Gone With The Wind"
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  • This ex-reporter for the Atlanta Journal took nearly 10 years to write "Gone With The Wind"
  • Anne Edwards' biography of this author is titled "Road to Tara"
  • She went to Smith in 1918 hoping to become a doctor; her dream was "Gone with the Wind" when her mom died in 1919
  • In the early 1920s she scandalized Atlanta society by doing a provocative dance at a debutante ball
  • Fans of this author can tour the Atlanta home where she wrote much of "Gone with the Wind"
  • Her story began in Atlanta November 8, 1900 & ended there as well in August 1949
  • In Macmillan's spring 1936 catalog, her upcoming novel was misidentified as "Come with the Wind"
  • In "Gone with the Wind" she wrote of "the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain"
  • She sometimes joked that she was writing a sequel to her famous novel to be titled "Back With the Breeze"
  • She left the Atlanta Journal in 1926 after injuring her ankle, & spent the next ten years writing a novel
  • This author concluded a famous novel with the line "After all, tomorrow is another day"
  • The visitors' center for this author's house is at the corner of Peachtree Street & Peachtree Place
  • "Lost Laysen" is a once-lost novella that this "Gone With The Wind" author wrote when she was just 16

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