Inspirational Quotes by Margaret Mitchell (American Novelist)

Margaret Mitchell (1900–49,) fully Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, was an American author and journalist. She is the author of the famous novel Gone with the Wind (1936.) This, her only novel, was for many years the most significant publishing success ever.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Mitchell grew up hearing stories of the Confederacy. She studied at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, for a medical career but turned to journalism. She was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal for six years.

Mitchell spent ten years researching and writing Gone with the Wind (1936,) her panoramic romantic tale of the Civil War and Reconstruction from a Southern point of view. The story’s protagonist, Scarlett O’Hara, is a determined Southern belle who survives the hardships of the war, establishes a successful business on the back of rebuilding the South, and endures a series of marriages and failed love affairs with other men.

Gone with the Wind earned Mitchell a National Book Award and a Pulitzer. By the time Mitchell died at age 48, the book had sold 8 million copies in 40 countries. The book was adapted into a celebrated 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It made more money than any other movie for more than two decades.

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