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Margaret Mitchell

1900 - 1949

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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) 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 novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Mitchell is the 380th most popular writer (down from 360th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from United States (down from 341st in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Writer.

Margaret Mitchell is most famous for writing Gone with the Wind, which is a novel about the Southern United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Among writers, Margaret Mitchell ranks 380 out of 7,302. Before her are Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Salman Rushdie, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. After her are Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Ali-Shir Nava'i.

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Among people born in 1900, Margaret Mitchell ranks 22. Before her are Dennis Gabor, Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, Eyvind Johnson, Giorgos Seferis, and Adlai Stevenson II. After her are Vasily Chuikov, Urho Kekkonen, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Maria of Yugoslavia, and Sándor Márai. Among people deceased in 1949, Margaret Mitchell ranks 9. Before her are Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Leonard Bloomfield, and Kim Jong-suk. After her are Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, James Ensor, August Krogh, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and Charles Ponzi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 450 out of 20,380. Before her are Rachel Carson (1907), Philip Kotler (1931), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Edward Hopper (1882), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), and Nancy Reagan (1921). After her are Bill Nelson (1942), Eli Wallach (1915), John Rawls (1921), William F. Sharpe (1934), Angelina Jolie (1975), and Edward Drinker Cope (1840).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Margaret Mitchell ranks 40. Before her are Mario Puzo (1920), J. D. Vance (1984), O. Henry (1862), Ivanka Trump (1981), Henry Miller (1891), and Coen brothers (null). After her are Sylvia Plath (1932), Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), and Jack Kerouac (1922).

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