Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)
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Margaret Mitchell
Writer
Born: November 8, 1900. Margaret 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 Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Mitchell passed away August 16, 1949.