Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and writer, was born with the century, on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, the setting for her only play, Gone with the Wind.
Editor of the Atlanta Journal, newspaper of her hometown since 1922, a manuscript of two thousand pages without any chronological rigor, a romantic portrait of life in the southern United States during the Civil War, will earn her the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
The novel is titled Tomorrow will be another day, the publisher requests an immediate change.
After shuffling other titles, the author suggests the phrase Gone With the Wind, included in a poem by the Englishman Ernest Dowson.
Margaret had written the first chapter (she would write eleven different ones) and gives the original to the editor, fearing that relatives and countrymen might get angry because of certain similarities with their ancestors.
On June 30, 1936 the novel reaches bookstores, three years later it is adapted to the cinema.
Over time, it became one of the most popular works in the history of literature, the best-selling book of all time, with the exception of the Bible, and was immortalized on the big screen by director Víctor Fleming in 1939, reaping eight Oscars.
Ten years later, on August 16, 1949, Margaret dies, only 48 years old, after being run over by a taxi driver who was driving while intoxicated.
His remains rest in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta.
