1900 - 1949
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell 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 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 2,181,922 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Margaret Mitchell is the 295th most popular writer (up from 332nd in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from United States (up from 302nd in 2019) and the 26th 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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Among writers, Margaret Mitchell ranks 295 out of 5,755. Before her are Ernst Jünger, Simonides of Ceos, Alice Munro, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. After her are Mikhail Sholokhov, Lucan, Saadi Shirazi, Fuzûlî, Heinrich von Kleist, and Alberto Moravia.
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 289
556 BC - 468 BC
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 290
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 291
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 292
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 293
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 294
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 295
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 296
39 - 65
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 297
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 298
1494 - 1556
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 299
1777 - 1811
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 300
1907 - 1990
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 301
Among people born in 1900, Margaret Mitchell ranks 15. Before her are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, and Vasily Chuikov. After her are Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Dennis Gabor, Charles Francis Richter, Sándor Márai, and Urho Kekkonen. Among people deceased in 1949, Margaret Mitchell ranks 7. Before her are Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Strauss, Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, and Edward Thorndike. After her are Hassan al-Banna, Charles Ponzi, James Ensor, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Friedrich Bergius, and Elton Mayo.
1900 - 2002
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 9
1900 - 1946
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 11
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 12
1900 - 1945
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 14
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 15
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 16
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 17
1900 - 1979
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 18
1900 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 19
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 20
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 21
1862 - 1949
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 1
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 2
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 3
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 4
1882 - 1949
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 5
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 6
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 7
1906 - 1949
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 8
1882 - 1949
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 9
1860 - 1949
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 10
1870 - 1949
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 11
1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 12
1880 - 1949
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 265 out of 18,182. Before her are John Dillinger (1903), Nina Simone (1933), Christopher Lloyd (1938), Mary Cassatt (1844), B.B. King (1925), and Robert Peary (1856). After her are Leonard Bernstein (1918), John Quincy Adams (1767), Claude Shannon (1916), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Rachel Carson (1907), and Benjamin Harrison (1833).
1903 - 1934
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 259
1933 - 2003
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 260
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 261
1844 - 1926
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 262
1925 - 2015
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 263
1856 - 1920
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 264
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 265
1918 - 1990
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 266
1767 - 1848
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 267
1916 - 2001
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 268
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 269
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 270
1833 - 1901
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 271
Among writers born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 26. Before her are Ray Bradbury (1920), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Philip K. Dick (1928), Coen brothers (null), Walt Whitman (1819), and Henry Miller (1891). After her are Mario Puzo (1920), Raymond Chandler (1888), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), Arthur Miller (1915), and Louise Glück (1943).
1920 - 2012
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 20
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 21
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 22
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 23
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 25
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 26
1920 - 1999
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 27
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 29
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 30
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 31
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.11
Rank: 32