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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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This is such a beautiful old classic I read it because my mother died. I was not disappointed it is a great old novel about the south and the way they lived in the plantations. I’m not usually a romance fan but because of the era and age I thought it was very profound. My mother loved this book which is what inspired me to read it and I was not disappointed. She had addressed by specially Wayback when it was first released as a movie but I thought the book, even though I didn’t see the movie later, but much better. But that’s only my opinion.
