5. Margaret Mitchell wrote only one novel, Gone with the Wind.  It was published in 1936 and proved to be such a good success that Mitchell´s life was irrevocably altered.  She lost all her privacy and lamented this fact constantly until her death in 1949.  The novel, which has been translated into 28 Languages and has sold more copies than any other book except for the Bible, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.  Not long afterward, the movie produced by David O. Selznick had its premiere in Atlanta in 1939.  This movie holds the record of having been viewed more times than any other movie produced. Throughout her life, Mitchell denied that her main characters, Scarlett and Rhett or any of her other characters were biographical in any way.  She did have access to family correspondence dating from the 1850s to the 1880s, the time of the American Civil War.  It seems natural that a woman with Margaret Mitchell´s vivid imagination and historical awareness, and in possession of a collection of Family correspondence that documents such a volatile era as that of a civil war, could weave a story that still enthralls.

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