Margaret Mitchell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Margaret Mitchell
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1900(1900-11-08)
Age	124
Date Of Death	Aug 16, 1949 (48 age)
Birthplace	Atlanta
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Margaret Mitchell Biography

Margaret Mitchell is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, United States. Author of the bestselling novel, Gone with the Wind, which received both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed, 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.

Her writing was heavily influenced by the work of one of her favorite authors, Charles Dickens.

In 1994, Mitchell made the documentary work ‘Family’. The series concentrated on the lives of Mitchell’s sister and her children in the Raploch area in the town of Stirling, Scotland, an area which scores highly in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Mitchell states that photography as social commentary is what drew her into being a photographer and how her work ‘Family’ was ‘rooted in the stigmatisation of certain strands of society’

Mitchell graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a degree in Photography, Film and Television in 1994 and has a Masters in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art (2000).

She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter of suffragist Mary Isabel Stephens and attorney Eugene Muse Mitchell. She was briefly married to Berrien K. Upshaw before meeting John R. Marsh, the man who would become second husband. She had no children.

Margaret Mitchell Net Worth

Margaret Mitchell is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Margaret Mitchell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After Mitchell’s dress caught on fire when she was three years old, her mother started dressing her in boys’ pants, earning her the nickname of Jimmy (based on Little Jimmy, a popular comic strip of the time). She wrote a novella called Lost Laysen during her adolescent years; the work was published nearly a century later.

She only had one book published while she was alive, but that work alone won her the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Margaret Mitchell (born 1968) is a Scottish photographer who works within portraiture and documentary practice. Her work has recurrent themes of childhood and youth, place and belonging within it.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Margaret Mitchell Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Margaret Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Margaret Mitchell celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.

What was Margaret Mitchell most famous for?

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist. After a broken ankle immobilized her in 1926, Mitchell started writing a novel that would become Gone With the Wind. Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind made Mitchell an instant celebrity and earned her the Pulitzer Prize.

How much did Margaret Mitchell get for Gone With the Wind?

The film was produced by Hollywood giant David O. Selznick, who paid Mitchell a record-high $50,000 for the film rights to her book.

What are some fun facts about Margaret Mitchell?

• When Mitchell was three years old, her skirt caught fire on an iron grate. …
• Mitchell began writing at a very early age. …
• During her adolescence, Mitchell wrote a novel called The Big Four about girls in boarding school.

Why Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind?

Margaret Mitchell, pictured above in 1941, started writing while recovering from an ankle injury in 1926. She had read her way through most of Atlanta’s Carnegie Library, so her husband brought home a typewriter and said: “ Write your own book to amuse yourself.” The result was Gone with the Wind.

Is Gone With the Wind a good book?

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award. The current publisher, Penguin Vintage Classics, says it is “ beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels “.