Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1900. She began as a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, with her first article published in December 1922, and during her newspaper years she wrote 129 feature articles and 85 news stories.
She left journalism in 1926 and began writing Gone with the Wind, which was published in 1936 and was the only novel she published in her lifetime. It won the National Book Award and the 1937 Pulitzer Prize. She died in Atlanta in 1949.
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