Margaret Mitchell

Also known as Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell

American author and journalist (1900–1949)

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Margaret Mitchell was an American author and journalist who lived from 1900 to 1949, best known for writing *Gone with the Wind*, one of the most widely read novels in American literature. Her work remains significant in American literary history and continues to be studied and discussed for its cultural impact.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Margaret
Family name: Mitchell
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Atlanta
Place of death: Atlanta
Occupation: journalist
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
Genre: romance
Image: Margaret Mitchell NYWTS (cropped).jpg
Residence: Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

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Commons category: Margaret Mitchell
date of birth: 1900-11-09
date of death: 1949-08-16
topic's main category: Category:Margaret Mitchell
manner of death: accidental death
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
start of work period: 1936-00-00
pseudonym: Margaret Mitchell
writing language: English language
name in native language: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
short name: Margaret Mitchell
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was 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 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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