Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell was an American author and journalist who lived from 1900 to 1949, best known for writing *Gone with the Wind*, one of the most widely read novels in American literature. Her work remains significant in American literary history and continues to be studied and discussed for its cultural impact.
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) 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 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.
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