Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Margaret Mitchell
"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 which she won the List of National Book Award winners#1935 to 1941/National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936
"5 Honors Awarded on the Year's Books: ...", The New York Times, Feb 26, 1937, page 23. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2007).
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-Constitution/The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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