Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

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 Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In recent years long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Mitchell has received more than 1,482,340 page views. Her biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Margaret Mitchell is the 332nd most popular writer (up from 368th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from United States (up from 317th 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.