Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell
Mitchell in 1941
Born	Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900-11-08)November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	August 16, 1949(1949-08-16) (aged 48) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Resting place	Oakland Cemetery
Pen name	Peggy Mitchell
Occupation	Journalist, novelist
Education	Smith College
Genre	Romance novel, Historical fiction, epic novel
Notable works	Gone with the Wind Lost Laysen
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1937) National Book Award (1936)
Spouse	Berrien Upshaw ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1924)​ John Marsh ​ (m. 1925)​ [1]
Parents	Eugene M. Mitchell Maybelle Stephens
Relatives	Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (grandmother) Joseph Mitchell (nephew) Mary Melanie Holliday (cousin)
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)^[2] was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was 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^[3] 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. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

Mitchell was struck and killed by a speeding drunk driver in 1949.