When her mother died the following year, Mitchell returned to Atlanta to keep house for her father and brother. Mitchell graduated from Atlanta’s Washington Seminary in 1918 and enrolled at Smith College in Massachusetts. She also was a voracious reader and wrote numerous stories and plays throughout her youth. An active tomboy, she played in the earthen fortifications that still surrounded her hometown of Atlanta and often went horseback riding with Confederate veterans. Mitchell grew up in a family of storytellers who regaled her with firsthand accounts of their experiences during the American Civil War, which had ended just 35 years before her birth. The novel earned Mitchell a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and it was the source of the classic film of the same name released in 1939. She is the author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the Wind (1936). Margaret Mitchell, in full Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, was born November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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