Margaret Mitchell
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| Born | Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Died | August 16, 1949 (aged 48) Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Pen name | Margaret Mitchell |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Genre | Romance novel, Historical fiction |
| Notable works |
Gone with the Wind Lost Laysen |
| Notable awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937) National Book Award (1936) |
| Spouse |
Berrien Kinnard Upshawer (1922–1924; divorced) John Robert Marsh (1925–1949; widower) |
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Berrien Kinnard Upshawer (1922–1924; divorced)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was 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 more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, was a suffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.
Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War. Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army on June 24, 1861 and served in Hood's Texas Brigade. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg, demoted for 'inefficiency,' and detailed as a nurse in Atlanta. After the Civil War, he made a large fortune supplying lumber for the rapid rebuilding of Atlanta. Russell Mitchell had thirteen children from two wives; the eldest was Eugene, who graduated from the University of Georgia Law School.
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