WRITER

Margaret Mitchell

1900 - 1949

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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Mitchell has received more than 2,360,949 page views. Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Margaret Mitchell is the 360th most popular writer (down from 295th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from United States (down from 265th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Writer.

Margaret Mitchell is most famous for writing Gone with the Wind, which is a novel about the Southern United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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  • 73.52

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  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Mitchell ranks 360 out of 7,302. Before her are Ahmad Yasawi, Herta Müller, Mikhail Lermontov, Simonides of Ceos, James Fenimore Cooper, and Jorge Amado. After her are Christine de Pizan, Ian Fleming, Mahmoud Darwish, Mario Puzo, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and Paul Auster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Margaret Mitchell ranks 15. Before her are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Vasily Chuikov. After her are Spencer Tracy, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Márai, Jacques Prévert, Charles Francis Richter, and Urho Kekkonen. Among people deceased in 1949, Margaret Mitchell ranks 8. Before her are Richard Strauss, George Gurdjieff, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Hassan al-Banna, and Edward Thorndike. After her are Friedrich Bergius, James Ensor, Charles Ponzi, Klaus Mann, Kim Jong-suk, and August Krogh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 341 out of 20,380. Before her are Shaquille O'Neal (1972), William Henry Harrison (1773), Christopher Walken (1943), Jared Leto (1971), John Stith Pemberton (1831), and James Fenimore Cooper (1789). After her are Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Mario Puzo (1920), Sharon Stone (1958), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Calvin Klein (1942), and Paul Auster (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 31. Before her are Coen brothers (null), David Woodard (1964), Henry Miller (1891), Ezra Pound (1885), Louise Glück (1943), and James Fenimore Cooper (1789). After her are Mario Puzo (1920), Paul Auster (1947), O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), and Dan Brown (1964).

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