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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell 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…
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culture · American novelist and journalist (1900–1949) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · journalist · prose writer · also Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, Mitchell
Born 8 November 1900 · Died 16 August 1949 · Q173540
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2026· 1 entry
2011· 1 entry
Left fifty percent of trademark and literary rights of the Margaret Mitchell Estate, as well as some personal belongings of Mitchell's, to the Archdiocese of Atlanta
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1996· 1 entry
Eighty years after it was written, and became a New York Times Best Seller
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Georgia Women of Achievement (1994).
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Shannen Doherty starred in the television film A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story, a fictionalized account of Mitchell's life directed by Larry Peerce
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1978· 1 entry
Mitchell was inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame, followed by the Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994, and the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000
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1949· 5 entries
Died 1949-08-16.
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“Opis: ostatnie słowa powieści.”
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“Kocham cię, Scarlett, za to, że jesteś tak bardzo do mnie podobna… Za to, że oboje jesteśmy renegatami i egoistami. Żadne z nas nie dba o to, czy świat idzie na psy, byle nam było dobrze i przyjemnie.”
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“Pobierajmy się z rozsądku, a kochajmy dla przyjemności.”
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“Śmierć, podatki i dziecko! Nie ma na nie odpowiedniego momentu.”
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1945· 1 entry
And the novella remained undiscovered among some letters she had written to him until 1994
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1944· 1 entry
Christened Atlanta in Camden, New Jersey, and the cruiser began fighting operations in May 1945
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1942· 1 entry
During the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and subsequently scuttled on orders of her captain having earned five battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation as a "heroic example of invincible fighting spirit"
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for Gone with the Wind (1937).
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award for Gone with the Wind (1936).
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1935· 1 entry
Along with her manuscript for Gone with the Wind
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1925· 1 entry
24-year-old Margaret Mitchell and 29-year-old John Marsh were married in the Unitarian-Universalist Church
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1924· 1 entry
Upshaw and Mitchell were divorced on October 16, 1924.
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1923· 1 entry
Valentino Declares He Isn't a Sheik, she interviewed celebrity actor Rudolph Valentino, referring to him as "Sheik" from his film role
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1922· 2 entries
Came to an end less than four years later; her last article appeared on May 9, 1926
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Upshaw earned money bootlegging alcohol out of the Georgia mountains
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1920· 1 entry
“memory of a love that had in it no trace of physical passion”
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1919· 2 entries
Her mother, May Belle Mitchell, succumbed to pneumonia from the "Spanish flu"
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Was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, but resigned for academic deficiencies on January 5, 1920
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1917· 1 entry
At a dance hosted by the parents of one of her friends, and the other, Upshaw's roommate and friend, John Robert Marsh (October 6, 1895 – March 5, 1952), a copy editor from Kentucky who worked for the Associated Press
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1916· 3 entries
And, with much greater sophistication, in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began in 1926
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“s last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began in 1926. In her pre-teens, Mitchell also wrote stories set in foreign locations, such as The Greaser (1913), a cowboy story set in Mexico. In 1913 she wrote two stories with Civil War settings; one includes her notation that”
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When the silent film, The Birth of a Nation, was showing in Atlanta, she dramatized Dixon's The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire (1907)
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1913· 1 entry
Wrote two stories with Civil War settings; one includes her notation that "237 pages are in this book"
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1912· 1 entry
Moved to the east side of Peachtree Street just north of Seventeenth Street in Atlanta
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1900· 2 entries
Born 1900-11-08.
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Into a wealthy and politically prominent family
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1894· 2 entries
She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.
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And Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896
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1863· 1 entry
Were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens; he had also emigrated from Ireland and became a captain in the Confederate States Army
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1861· 1 entry
Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army on June 24, 1861, and served in Hood's Texas Brigade.
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1839· 1 entry
Margaret Mitchell's great-grandfather Issac Green Mitchell moved to a farm along the Flat Shoals Road located in the Flat Rock community in 1839.
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