Margaret Mitchell Writer

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was 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 1936and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

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Pseudonym	Margaret Mitchell
Birth date	November 08, 1900
Birth name	Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Birth place	Atlanta , Georgia (U.S. state) , United States
Date of death	August 16, 1949
Place of death	Atlanta , Georgia (U.S. state) , Grady Memorial Hospital

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Writer

award	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction List of winners of the National Book Award
genre	Romance novel Historical fiction
notable work	Gone with the Wind Lost Laysen