Today in History: Gone with the Wind

On this day (May 3) in 1937, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Gone with the Wind is probably better known for the Academy Award winning movie adaptation starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Despite a great deal of controversy over the depiction of African Americans in both the book and film, a 2008 Harris Poll ranked Gone With the Wind as the all-time second favorite book by American readers (the bible was number one).