More than a decade before Margaret Mitchell the novelist conceived the immortal fictive world of 'Gone With the Wind', Margaret Mitchell the reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her natal Atlanta in search of the who, what, when, and where of her popular columns in the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine. Defying convention, the recent debutante took the early morning streetcar to the spittoon-filled, hard-swearing offices of her big-city newspaper to 'hunt and peck' on an old Underwood typewriter as one of the first woman columnists at the South's largest newspaper. From 1922 until 1926, Mitchell completed dozens of articles, interviews, sketches, and book reviews, only a handful of which have ever been reprinted. Included here are those pieces singled out by Mitchell as among her favourites, those of which she was most proud.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist best known for her epic historical novel "Gone with the Wind," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Mitchell's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions, strong character development, and a keen focus on the Southern United States. "Gone with the Wind" remains one of the best-selling novels of all time and has had a lasting impact on literature, particularly in the genre of historical fiction. Mitchell's contribution to literature lies in her ability to capture the complexities of the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
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