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A Short Biography of Margaret Mitchell

Author Name:

Margaret Mitchell

Born As:

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell

Other Names:

Born:

08 Nov 1900

Died:

16 Aug 1949




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Novelist                          
                          
Mother Mary Isabelle
Father Eugene Mitchell, two children, Stephen and Margaret.
First husband Berrien Upshaw, divorced.
Second husband John Marsh                          
Pulitzer Prize for fiction - 1937, Gone With the Wind, which sold over 30 million copies.                          
Gone With the Wind, which sold over 30 million copies, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards.

Under the name Peggy Mitchell, Margaret wrote a weekly column for the newspaper's Sunday edition, and made her mark as one of the first female columnists at the South's largest newspaper.