Date of Birth
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08-November-1900
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Place of Birth
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Atlanta
(Georgia, United States of America, Fulton County, Area code 470, Area code 678, Area code 404)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Author, Journalist
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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