What is margaret mitchell famous for

She just wanted to be known as Mrs. John Marsh.

Margaret Mitchell was her maiden name. Born in Atlanta in 1900, she lived away from the city only once, for a year, at Smith College. Her grandfather fought in the Civil War; her mother’s family was Irish Catholic, like the O’Hara’s of Tara.

Mitchell went to work for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine in 1922, writing under the byline “Peggy Mitchell.” She married her second husband, John Marsh, in 1925. For 10 years, in a small apartment she dubbed “the dump,” she worked on a novel set in Atlanta during the Civil War.

Gone with the Wind was published in 1936. It sold more than 1 million copies in its first six months. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and then sold the movie rights to her book for $50,000 — the most money ever paid for a manuscript up to that time.

She died tragically in 1949, hit by a cab on her way to a movie.

The Georgian who wrote the best-selling novel in American publishing history was born on November 8, 1900, Today in Georgia History.

Margaret Mitchell was the author of Gone With the Wind, one of the most popular books of all time.

The novel was published in 1936 and sold more than a million copies in the first six months, a phenomenal feat considering it was the Great Depression era. More than 30 million copies of this masterpiece, set during the Civil War (1861-65), have been sold worldwide in thirty-eight countries. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. Shortly after the book’s publication the movie rights were sold to David O. Selznick for $50,000, the highest amount ever paid for a manuscript up to that time. In 1937 Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Early Life and Education

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta. Her great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Mitchell fought in the American Revolution (1775-83), and his son William Mitchell took part in the War of 1812. Her great-grandfather Isaac Green Mitchell was a circuit-riding Methodist minister who settled in Marthasville, which later was named Atlanta. Mi

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