Biographies: Margaret Mitchell - Writer

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American novelist, born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, USA. With her only novel, "Gone with the Wind", she achieved a fame that no other novelist before her had reached. She began her career in 1921 as a reporter for the Atlanta newspaper, and in 1925 she got married to the editor-in-chief and retired from journalism. Mitchell, after a failed marriage, began to support herself by writing for a local newspaper in Atlanta. She retired from journalism in the mid-twenties and devoted herself to writing her famous novel, Gone with the Wind, which she completed in 10 years. Mitchell refused many tempting offers to write a second part of that novel, but in 1980 her grandchildren gave the author Alexandra Ripley the permission to write the second part of the novel and it was printed in 1991. It was turned into a television series, but the book and the television work were not met with success. On August 16, 1949, she was involved in a car accident while crossing the street and died in the hospital five days later from her injuries. She died at the age of 48 and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. On May 16, 1997, the house where Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind was converted into a museum. It contains original documents and tapes from the novel and the film, along with her personal belongings.

• 23 May 2022
• farah ashraf