ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, born in Atlanta, Georgia, in November, 1900, was an American novelist and journalist. She wrote only one novel, 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. After a broken ankle immobilized her in 1926, Mitchell started writing a novel that became Gone With the Wind. The book made Mitchell an instant celebrity. More than 30 million copies of Mitchell’s Civil War masterpiece have been sold worldwide, and it has been translated into 27 languages. Mitchell was struck by a car and died in 1949.
About the Author
ABOUT THE BOOK:- Gone with the Wind is the novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell. It is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy. In particular, it is the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a headstrong Southern belle who survives the hardships of the war and afterward manages to establish a successful business by capitalizing on the struggleto rebuild the South. The story is: Set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Written from the perspective of the slaveholder. A Southern plantation fiction. A portrayal of slavery of African Americans, which has been considered controversial, especially by succeeding generations. However, the novel has become a reference point for subsequent writers of the South, both black and white. Scholars at American universities refer to, interpret, and study it in their writings. The novel has been absorbed into popular American culture.
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