The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia by Anita Price Davis

By Anita Price Davis

Atlanta author Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) wrote Gone with the Wind (1936), one of many best-selling novels of all time. The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel was once the root of the 1939 movie, the 1st motion picture to win greater than 5 Academy Awards. Margaret Mitchell didn't put up one other novel after Gone with the Wind. aiding the troops in the course of international conflict II, helping African-American scholars financially, serving within the American pink move, promoting stamps and bonds, and assisting others—usually anonymously—consumed her. This ebook finds little-known proof approximately this altruistic woman.
The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia records Mitchell’s paintings, her existence, her influence on Atlanta, the city’s memorials to her, her flats, information of her dying, information regarding her relations, the institution of the Margaret Mitchell condo opposed to nice odds, and her relationships with the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Junior League.

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