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 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 1,672,291 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.
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Among writers, Margaret Mitchell ranks 332 out of 5,794. Before her are Pär Lagerkvist, Cassiodorus, Alexandra Feodorovna, Max Brod, André Malraux, and Truman Capote. After her are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Lorenzo Valla, Erich von Däniken, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Arthur Schnitzler.
1891 - 1974
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 326
487 - 583
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 327
1872 - 1918
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 328
1884 - 1968
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 329
1901 - 1976
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 330
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 331
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 332
25 BC - 50
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 333
1407 - 1457
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 334
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.44
Rank: 335
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 76.44
Rank: 336
1863 - 1933
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 337
1862 - 1931
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 338
Among people born in 1900, Margaret Mitchell ranks 16. Before her are Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Charles Francis Richter, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Spencer Tracy, and Vasily Chuikov. After her are Jacques Prévert, Heinrich Müller, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Márai, Thomas Wolfe, and Hans Fritzsche. 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 James Ensor, Charles Ponzi, Hassan al-Banna, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Kim Jong-suk, and Victor Fleming.
1900 - 1978
HPI: 78.25
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 11
1900 - 1985
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 12
1900 - 1958
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 13
1900 - 1967
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 14
1900 - 1982
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 15
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 16
1900 - 1977
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 17
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 18
1900 - 1979
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 19
1900 - 1989
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 20
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 21
1900 - 1953
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 22
1862 - 1949
HPI: 82.63
Rank: 1
1864 - 1949
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 2
1882 - 1949
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 3
1866 - 1949
HPI: 79.34
Rank: 4
1882 - 1949
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 5
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 6
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 7
1860 - 1949
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 8
1882 - 1949
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 9
1906 - 1949
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 10
1870 - 1949
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 11
1919 - 1949
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 12
1889 - 1949
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 302 out of 15,968. Before her are John Ford (1894), John R. Bolton (1948), Liza Minnelli (1946), Cameron Diaz (1972), Truman Capote (1924), and Robert Peary (1856). After her are Ella Fitzgerald (1917), Sandra Bullock (1964), Eminem (1972), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), and Roy Lichtenstein (1923).
1894 - 1973
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 296
1948 - Present
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 297
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 298
1972 - Present
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 299
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 300
1856 - 1920
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 301
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 302
1917 - 1996
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 303
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 304
1972 - Present
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 305
1860 - 1925
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 306
1944 - Present
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 307
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 308
Among writers born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 31. Before her are Mario Puzo (1920), O. Henry (1862), Arthur Miller (1915), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), and Truman Capote (1924). After her are James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Raymond Chandler (1888), Napoleon Hill (1883), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), and Paul Auster (1947).
1920 - 1999
HPI: 77.54
Rank: 25
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 26
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 27
1922 - 1969
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 28
1885 - 1972
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 29
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 30
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 31
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 32
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 33
1883 - 1970
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 34
1843 - 1916
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 35
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 36
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 37