Margaret Mitchell Quotes


To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.


Citations

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan, 1936.

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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
  • Born: November 8, 1900
  • Died: August 16, 1949
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Novelist

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, 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 recent years long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.