Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell ( Eng. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell ; November 8, 1900 , Atlanta , Georgia , USA - August 16, 1949 , ibid.) Is an American writer and author of Gone With the Wind .
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| Birth name | Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell |
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| Date of Birth | November 8, 1900 |
| Place of Birth | Atlanta , Georgia , USA |
| Date of death | August 16, 1949 (48 years old) |
| Place of death | Atlanta , Georgia , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | prose writer , journalist |
| Years of creativity | 1936-1949 |
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| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | [d] [d] |
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The novel, released in 1936 , received the Pulitzer Prize , having stood more than 70 publications in the United States, and was translated into 37 languages of the world. The 1939 film of the same name , directed by Victor Fleming , received eight Academy Awards.
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Biography
Childhood. The work of a journalist
Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the family of lawyer Eugene Mitchell and Maria Isabella, often referred to as May Belle. Brother Margaret - Stephen, was four years older than her.
Margaret's childhood passed in the atmosphere of stories about the events of the recent era, which was also helped by the fact that her father was the chairman of the local historical society. So an impressionable child from childhood eagerly absorbed stories about the Civil War , which were told by parents who knew firsthand about the war. Two grandfathers Margaret Mitchell fought on the side of the southerners: one got a bullet in the temple, which by pure chance did not hurt the brain; the other was hiding from the Yankee winners for a long time.
The future writer began her education at the Washington Seminary, and in 1918 she entered the prestigious Smith College for Women in Massachusetts .
She returned to Atlanta to take control of the household after the death of her mother from the great pandemic of the “Spanish” flu in 1918. In the same year, another tragic event occurred in Margaret's life: in France, her fiancé, Lieutenant Henry, died, and every year a day of his death, she sent flowers to his mother. In 1922, under the name Peggy (her school nickname), Mitchell joined the Atlanta Journal, eventually becoming a leading reporter.
In the same year, she married Berrien Kinnard Upshaw, but after a few months they divorced. About the first marriage it is only known that Mitchell did not part with the gun until her husband was found murdered somewhere in the Midwest. In 1925, she married insurance agent John Marsh. An ankle injury sustained in 1926 made the reporter's job impossible. Mitchell left the newspaper and since then led the life of an ordinary provincial lady, as she called herself, having settled with her husband near her famous Peach Street.
Work on the novel
Encouraged by her husband, Margaret began work on a novel that lasted ten years. Episodes were written by chance, then gathered together.
The editor of a large publishing house, who arrived in Atlanta, found out about a voluminous manuscript (more than a thousand printed pages). Mitchell did not immediately agree to publish the book (formerly titled “Tomorrow is Another Day”). Over the next year, Mitchell worked hard on the text, paying particular attention to historical details and dates. The name changed to Gone with the Wind (line from the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae [1] by Ernest Dowson ). The book was released in June 1936 , accompanied by tremendous advertising support, in which Mitchell herself played an active role.
In 1937, the book received the Pulitzer Prize .
The author herself was seriously engaged in affairs around the sale of the novel, establishing rights and deductions, controlling publications in other languages.
Despite numerous requests from fans, Margaret Mitchell did not write any more books.
Margaret's Death
On the evening of August 11, 1949, when Mitchell went to a movie with her husband for the movie "Canterbury Story" , she was hit by a car (whose driver, Hugh Gravitt, used to work as a taxi driver, hence the often erroneous allegations that she was hit by a taxi), and 5 days later she died without regaining consciousness. Gravitt was arrested for drunk driving and even before his death, Mitchell was released on bail of $ 5,450. In November of that year, he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months in prison, but served only 11. He died in 1994 at the age of 73.
See also
- Burning Passion: The Story of Margaret Mitchell (1994). In Raleigh Margaret Mitchell - Shannen Doherty .
Notes
Literature
- Arkhangelskaya I. B. The work of M. Mitchell and the “southern tradition” in US literature (30s of the twentieth century): Abstract of thesis. ... cand. filol. sciences. - N. Novgorod: NGPI, 1993 .-- 18 p.
- Arkhangelskaya I. B. Roman Margaret Mitchell “Gone with the Wind”: the history of creation and the specifics of the genre // Bulletin of the Vyatka State University for the Humanities: “Philology and Art History”: a scientific journal. - Kirov, 2012. - No. 3 (2). - S. 119-123.
- Arkhangelskaya I. B. Theme of the American South in the novel by M. Mitchell // Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod University. N.I. Lobachevsky. No. 3. N. Novgorod: Publishing House of Nizhny Novgorod State University N.I. Lobachevsky, 2014.S. 267-274.
- Burin S. N. Time in Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” // American Yearbook 1989 - M.: Science. 1990. - S. 97-121.