Margaret Mitchell

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First Name	Margaret
Middle Name	Munnerlyn
Last Name	Mitchell
Full Name at Birth	Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Other Names	Margaret Mitchell Marsh Peggy Mitchell Peggy Marsh
Age	48 (age at death)
Date of Birth	November 8, 1900
Birthplace	Atlanta, Georgia
Date of Death	August 16, 1949
Location of Death	Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cause of Death	Car Crash
Height	4' 9½" (146 cm)
Build	Slim
Star Sign	Scorpio
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	American
High School	Washington Seminary
University	Medicine, Smith College (withdrew 1918)
Occupation	Author, Journalist
Occupation Category	Author
Claim to Fame	Gone With The Wind
Father	Eugene Muse Mitchell (father)
Mother	Maybelle Mitchell (mother)
Other Family Members	John Robert Marsh (husband)

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her epic novel Gone with the Wind, her only major publication. This novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies (see list of best-selling books). The film adaptation of it, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and it received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards (a record since eclipsed by Ben Hur, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Titanic). Mitchell has been honored by the United States Postal Service with a 1¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

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