"between August and September 1994. The film was released a few days before the premiere of ""Scarlett"", the sequel of ""Gone with the Wind"". A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce. The film is about the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel writer Margaret Mitchell, who landed to fame when she wrote ""Gone with the Wind"". The film was praised by critics, with them especially complimenting Memphis, Tennessee-born Shannen Doherty's Old Southern accent. Margaret grows up to become a respectable lady in the South, just like"
"narrators ranging from the deceased Addie to her young son. The late 1930s also saw the publication of one of the best-known Southern novels, ""Gone with the Wind"" by Margaret Mitchell. The novel, published in 1936, quickly became a bestseller. It won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1939 an equally famous movie of the novel premiered. Mitchell's novel consolidated white supremacist Lost Cause ideologies (see Lost Cause of the Confederacy) to construct a bucolic plantation South in which slavery was a benign, or even benevolent, institution. She presents white southerners as victims of a rapacious Northern industrial capitalism and"
"Back of the Book"" (1924), ""Tin Wedding"" (1926), and ""The Feathered Nest"" (1928) and, in 1927, co-wrote a biography of Anthony Comstock with Heywood Broun. Leech died of a stroke in New York City at age 80. Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (""Reveille in Washington"", Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (""In the Days of McKinley"", Harper). She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A."
"in getting it from her in the lobby of the hotel as he was about to depart for New Orleans. Upon handing the manuscript to Latham, Marsh said, ""If you really want it you may take it, but it is incomplete and unrevised."" That unfinished novel was completed and published in 1936 as ""Gone with the Wind"", winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. While she insisted on using her married name socially, the book was published under her maiden name of Margaret Mitchell. On December 15, 1939, the Georgian Terrace Hotel's Grand Ballroom was the site of the ""Gone with"
"and early twentieth centuries, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy promoted influential works by women in these genres. Of much more lasting impact was the story ""Gone with the Wind"" in the form of a best-selling novel ""Gone with the Wind"" (1936), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for its author Margaret Mitchell, and an award-winning Hollywood blockbuster, ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). In each case the second half focuses on Reconstruction in Atlanta. The book sold millions of copies nationwide; the film is regularly rebroadcast on television. In 2018 it remains at the top of List of highest-grossing films"
"and wrote the annual school play until her retirement to Corfe Mullen, Dorset in 1961. She continued to write until her death aged 82 on 27 July 1983. She was a member of the Middlesex Education Association, the British Olympic Association, the Crime Writers' Association, PEN and the Society of Authors. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend the detective novelist Helen Simpson. Mitchell never married. Mitchell wrote at least one novel a year throughout her career. Her first novel (""Speedy Death"", 1929)"
"Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (""Reveille in Washington"", Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (""In the Days of McKinley"", Harper). She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A. from Vassar College in 1915, and worked for fund-raising organizations during World War I, including the American Committee for Devastated France. She started her writing career for the Condé Nast publishing company before World War I. Leech"
"he was a bureau chief in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Dallas. He was news editor in Chicago from 1916 to 1926, then moved to New York where, after two years as photo service editor, his title became Science Editor, AP's first. Blakeslee (along with four other reporters from different papers) won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for the group's collective coverage of science at Harvard University's tercentenary celebration. A better-known winner that year was Margaret Mitchell, who won for Gone With the Wind. Blakeslee reported extensively on the atomic bomb in the immediate post-war era and was among the group of"
"Margaret Mitchell House and Museum The Margaret Mitchell House is an historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell. It is located in Midtown, at 979 Crescent Avenue. Constructed by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a single-family residence in a then-fashionable section of residential Peachtree Street, the building's original address was 806 Peachtree Street. The house was known as the Crescent Apartments when Mitchell and her husband lived in Apt. 1 on the ground floor from 1925 to 1932. While living there, Mitchell wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""Gone with"
"Mystery"" (1939), in which two girls and four boys become amateur detectives and search for a long lost treasure. One summary of her critical reception concludes: Graham Greene, in a review of ""The Law and the McLaughlins"", wrote: ""She has an admirable gift for very simple direct narrative, and her theme has always been passionately realized in terms of human beings... we are always aware of a writer of fine moral discrimination and a passionate awareness of individual suffering."" Margaret Wilson (writer) Margaret Wilson (January 16, 1882 – October 6, 1973) was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924"
"for war). The Lost Cause view reached tens of millions of Americans in the best-selling 1936 novel ""Gone with the Wind"" by Margaret Mitchell and the Oscar-winning 1939 film. Helen Taylor has written that: ""Gone with the Wind"" has almost certainly done its ideological work. It has sealed in popular imaginations a fascinated nostalgia for the glamorous southern plantation house and ordered hierarchical society in which slaves are 'family,' and there is a mystical bond between the landowner and the rich soil those slaves work for him. It has spoken eloquently—albeit from an elitist perspective—of the grand themes (war, love,"
"the Newbery Medal, the first children's book award, in 1922. The Caldecott Medal for illustration followed in 1938. The first book by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her life on the American frontier, ""Little House in the Big Woods"" appeared in 1932. In 1937 Dr. Seuss published his first book, entitled, ""And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street"". The young adult book market developed during this period, thanks to sports books by popular writer John R. Tunis', the novel ""Seventeenth Summer"" by Maureen Daly, and the ""Sue Barton"" nurse book series by Helen Dore Boylston. The already vigorous"
"lasting contribution to literature for children"". At the time it was awarded every three years. That year she was also U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books. ""New York Times"" outstanding book of the year citations: 1983 – Newbery Honor Award, National Book Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book,all for ""Homesick: My Own Story"". 1989 – Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Orbis Pictus Award, National Council of English Teachers, for 1986 ""The Great Little Madison"" (1986) Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14,"
"a broken hip from a horseback riding accident injury sustained in 1933 and internal pressures. Between 1949 and 1956, she was editor of the ""Books for Young People"" section of the ""New York Herald Tribune"". Three of the books she published, ""The Trumpeter of Krakow"" by Eric P. Kelly in 1929, ""Hitty, Her First Hundred Years"" by Rachel Field in 1930, and ""The Cat Who Went to Heaven"" by Elizabeth Coatsworth in 1931, were awarded the Newbery Medal. As an author, Bechtel's best-known books are ""The Brave Bantam"" in 1946, and ""Mr. Peck's Pets"" in 1947. During her long career,"
"then completed his BA and a teaching certificate at the University of Alberta in 1943. While at the University of Alberta, Mitchell became a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Delta Phi chapter). An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, ""Who Has Seen The Wind"", which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, ""Jake and the Kid"", which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award. Both of these portray life on the Canadian Prairies where he"
"which were originally published 1893 to 1957. ""Hitty"" was added in 1961. ""Time Out of Mind"" won one of the inaugural National Book Awards as the Most Distinguished Novel of 1935, voted by the American Booksellers Association. Rachel Field Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning ""Hitty, Her First Hundred Years"". Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England"
"(1926) ""The Feet of Death"" (1927) ""Like a Rose"" (1928) ""The Thing That Cannot be Named"" (1929) ""Dear, Lovely One"" (1930) ""Fatal Shadows"" (1931) ""Poor Delights"" (1932) Twice Broken (1933) ""Death in Goblin Waters"" (1934). She was also a poet whose verse had appeared in ""The Sphere"" and elsewhere and had earned a reputation for eccentricity by habitually wearing medieval dress. Margaret Peterson Margaret Peterson (1883 – 1933) was a popular English novelist. Peterson also wrote under the pseudonym Glint Green. In 1913, she won the 250-guinea Melrose prize for her first novel ""The Lure of the Little Drum"". ""Blind"
"the University of Kansas. In 1922 she won the Poetry Prize of the Kansas Author Club. After moving to the East Coast, she married Liston Oak and became a trade union activist. In 1926 she wrote the titles of the silent film ""The Passaic Textile Strike"". In the thirties she was active as a singer/songwriter and composer of folk songs. After divorcing her first husband she met writer Albert Maltz in 1935. Maltz was 9 years younger. They married in 1937. Maltz was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten due to his refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities"
"she took the pseudonym of Romer Wilson. During the war she began writing her first novel ""Martin Schüler"", which was published in 1919. In 1921, she received the Hawthornden Prize for the novel ""The Death of Society: Conte de Fée Premier"". In addition she wrote ""Green Magic"" (1928), ""The Hill of Cloves"" (1929) and ""Red Magic"" (1930) which were collections of fairy tales from all over the world, and a biography about Emily Brontë entitled ""The Private Life And History Of Emily Jane Bronte"" (1928). Her novels contained a philosophical trend that spoke to some of the major concerns of"
"to the North with their children. This was a common tactic of Sherman to economically disrupt the South. There is little evidence that more than a few of the women ever returned home. The memory of Sherman's March became iconic and central to the ""Myth of the Lost Cause."" The crisis was the setting for Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel ""Gone with the Wind"" and the subsequent 1939 film. Most important were many ""salvation stories"" that tell not what Yankee soldiers destroyed, but what was saved by the quick thinking and crafty women on the home front, loyal slaves, or was"
"sales of the book. Mitchell would go on to write two other novels ""The Water-Drinker"" (1937) and ""Robert Harding"" (1938), but was never able to match the success he had with ""The Yellow Briar"". In 1935 Mitchell confessed to police that he had fallen into debt and used his clients money to rescue himself, in the amount of $20,000. He made a public confession and insisted that he be charged. He was given a sentence of six months and served it at Langstaff jail farm, he was also disbarred. As a consequence printings of ""The Yellow Briar"" were discontinued. Mitchell"
"the term had previously been used by the British magazine ""Punch"" in 1925. Margaret Widdemer Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection ""The Old Road to Paradise"", shared with Carl Sandburg for ""Cornhuskers"". Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She first came"
"Tara. By her name, Scarlett evokes emotions and images of the color scarlet: ""blood, passion, anger, sexuality, madness"". The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, as the nation was recovering from the Great Depression and at the virtually unprecedented high price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December. The book was a bestseller by the time reviews began to appear in national magazines. Herschel Brickell, a critic for the ""New York Evening Post"", lauded Mitchell for the way she ""tosses out the window all the thousands of technical tricks our novelists"
"Dalloway"" (1925), ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927), and ""The Waves"" (1931). Her essay collection ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929) contains her famous dictum; ""A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"". But while modernism was to become an important literary movement in the early decades of the new century, there were also many fine novelists who were not modernists. This include E.M. Forster ((1879–1970), John Galsworthy ((1867–1933) (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"", Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"", and H. G. Wells"
"1937 and fifth best for the year 1938. ""Oliver Wiswell"" also spent two years in the top ten (1940 and 1941), and ""Lydia Bailey"" reached the top ten in 1947. One of Roberts's closest friends and neighbors, the novelist A. Hamilton Gibbs, later stated that he believed that Roberts probably ""wrote himself out"" after ""Oliver Wiswell"" and certainly had done so after ""Lydia Bailey"". Key historical novels by Roberts and their topics include the following: In 1957, two months before his death, Roberts received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation ""for his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation"
"eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife. Mitchell's first novel, ""Ghostwritten"" (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, ""number9dream"" (2001) and ""Cloud Atlas"" (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected"
"Haunting"". In 1984 she won the medal again for ""The Changeover"". In 2005 she won the Phoenix Prize for The Catalogue of the Universe. The Margaret Mahy Award, named for Mahy, is presented annually to ""a person who has made a significant contribution to the broad field of children's literature and literacy"". Mahy was the first recipient of the award in 1991. Lectures by the winners are published, the standard of which was set by Mahy's inaugural lecture, ""Surprising Moments"". In 2013, the top prize for young adult fiction at the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards was renamed the"
"Ruth Sawyer Ruth Sawyer (August 5, 1880 – June 3, 1970) was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of ""Roller Skates"", which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. Ruth Sawyer, the youngest of five children, was the only daughter of Francis Milton and Ethalinda Smith Sawyer. Sawyer was born on August 5, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts. While she was still a baby they moved to New York City, where"
"The club has a tradition of focusing on debut and emerging writers, and is known for having helped launch the careers of some of the most acclaimed authors in American literary history. In 1926 (its first year in operation), the Club featured Ernest Hemingway's ""The Sun Also Rises"". In 1936 (its tenth year), the Club selected ""Gone with the Wind"" by unknown author Margaret Mitchell. Today, the book remains the second favorite of American readers (after the Bible). Mitchell wrote: ""I wanted to thank [Book of the Month] from the bottom of my heart for selecting my book. It was"
"books of the year -- a vivid, lovable story"". ""Roller Skates"" received the Newbery Award for 1937, for ""the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children"". Roller Skates Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It is a fictionalized account of one year of Sawyer's life. ""Roller Skates"" opens with the narrator remembering back to a special year in the 1890s, when young Lucinda Wyman arrives at the Misses Peters' home in New York City; the two ladies will care for her during the year"
"wept reading Johnston's ""The Long Roll"" (1911) and ""Cease Firing"" (1912). Between the ""scream of shells, the mighty onrush of charges, the grim and grisly aftermath of war"", ""Cease Firing"" is a romance novel involving the courtship of a Confederate soldier and a Louisiana plantation belle with Civil War illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Mitchell's two favorite children's books were by author Edith Nesbit: ""Five Children and It"" (1902) and ""The Phoenix and the Carpet"" (1904). She kept both on her bookshelf even"
"her pre-teens, Mitchell also wrote stories set in foreign locations, such as ""The Greaser"" (1913), a cowboy story set in Mexico. In 1913 she wrote two stories with Civil War settings; one includes her notation that ""237 pages are in this book"". While the Great War carried on in Europe (1914–1918), Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta's Washington Seminary (now The Westminster Schools), a ""fashionable"" private girls' school with an enrollment of over 300 students. She was very active in the Drama Club. Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's ""The"
"1936"". After the book was chosen as the Book-of-the-Month's selection for July, publication was delayed until June 30. The second printing of 25,000 copies (and subsequent printings) contains the release date: ""Published June, 1936."" The third printing of 15,000 copies was made in June 1936. Additionally, 50,000 copies were printed for the Book-of-the-Month Club July selection. ""Gone with the Wind"" was officially released to the American public on June 30, 1936. Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to ""Gone with the Wind"", Mitchell's estate authorized Alexandra Ripley to write a sequel, which was titled ""Scarlett"". The book was subsequently"