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Margaret Mitchell, Reporter
Nearly a decade and a half before the novelist Margaret Mitchell conceived the immortal fictive world of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell the cub reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her Atlanta hometown in search of the who, what, when, and where for her popular weekly columns in the Atlanta Journal. Showing the pluck that would have made her recently decea...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
October 10th 2000
by Hill Street Press
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This is a collection of Mitchell's newspaper articles. They do not read like a novel so if you are expecting a Gone with the Wind type of book you will be disappointed. The book does give a good sense of the culture of the time (1920's) but it would have been much more interesting if I were from Atlanta or knew a lot about the area. Most of the articles are about local places and people. In fact, she often provides the names and addresses of those she writes about. It is interesting for its hist...more
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So far, this is interesting. It's her newspaper colums from the time of the flappers. Reprinted with no changes, it shows much of what life was like at the time. Very different from today. Her columns on the slang of the time were really amusing. But I am less than hal way thru so we'll see what I think when I finish.
Excited to read this book! I love all things GWTW! My fiancé's grandmother gave me this book. I can't wait.
I love the spunky and vibrant Mitchell in her newspaper days.
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. A...more
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. A...more
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