Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949)
Atlanta-born author Margaret Mitchell was an unknown in 1936 when her novel Gone with the Wind hit bookshelves across the country. The phenomenal success of Gone with th...
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Biography EssayMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived her entire life. The daughter of Eugene Mitchell, an attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society, ...
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Author of Gone With the Wind, the most popular novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) was born on November 8 in Atlanta, Georgia, the burning of which became a spectacular scene in the imme...
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You do not have to have read Margaret Mitchell's Civil War epic Gone With the Wind (all 1,037 pages of it) to know of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. You do not even have to have seen Gone With the ...
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was to live her entire life. The daughter of Eugene Mitchell, an attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society, she grew ...
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Rhett Butler, the fictional Southern charmer who walked out of Scarlett O'Hara's life in "Gone With the Wind," returns to Georgia next weekend — on a book tour of sorts.The book, to be unveil...
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Today is Saturday, June 30, the 181st day of 2007. There are 184 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 30, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Pure Food and ...
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Democratic lawmakers on Monday scolded Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for balking at the Coast Guard's refund request for faulty ships."We deserve to have every dime of our money back," Rep. ...
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When you think of relaxation, chances are dental drills and Novocain needles don't come to mind.So it seems odd to see "dental spa" written across the clear glass doors of a dentist's office in Chi...
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When you think of relaxation, chances are dental drills and Novocain needles don't come to mind.So it seems odd to see "dental spa" written across the clear glass doors of a dentist's office in Chi...
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Today is Thursday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2007. There are 242 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1494 - Columbus discovers Jamaica.1660 - Peace of Olivia is signed, ending wa...
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When you think of relaxation, chances are dental drills and Novocain needles don't come to mind. So it seems odd to see "dental spa" written across the clear glass doors of a dentist's office in Ch...
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Laurence J. Kirshbaum, the former head of Warner Books, remembers publishing one of the biggest sensations of its time: Alexandra Ripley's "Scarlett," the authorized sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "...
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Two men walk into a bar. One man swaggers. He has a strong jaw, an unsettling gaze, and an urge to order whiskey straight up. The other man … um, who cares? Ah, bad boys: the eternal temptati...
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