LIBRARY MATTERS: Margaret Mitchell

Contributed article
Published: October 30, 2008

November 8 is the birthday of Margaret Mitchell, who was born in Atlanta in 1900. A newspaper reporter, she wrote the Civil War novel Gone With the Wind and was discovered by a Macmillan editor scouring the South for new talent. The book sold a million copies within four months of its publication in 1936, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and went on to become one of the most popular films of all time.
Mitchell, who died in 1949 after being struck by a car on Atlanta’s Peachtree Street, never wrote another book. If you’ve already read Gone With the Wind more times than you can count, consider a biography of Margaret Mitchell (Southern Daughter by Darden Asbury Pyron) or try the novel’s recent authorized sequel, Rhett Butler’s People.
Other books in the Greene County Library that might interest you:
· Lost Laysen   (Margaret Mitchell’s correspondence)
· Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh the love story behind Gone with the Wind
· Gone with the Wind: the definitive illustrated history of the book, the movie, and the legend
· Scarlett : the sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the wind
Use the online catalog to find the book you want and put it on hold: http://www.jmrl.org/catalog For help finding any of these books,  contact the Greene County Library at 985-5227.