Margaret Mitchell says...............

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is."

She wrote "Gone with the Wind" while she lived in the house below which is in Atlanta on Peach Street. She was born November 8, 1900. The house is now a museum open for tours. She died at the age of 49 after being hit by a speeding drunk driver while crossing Peach Street at 13th Street.


Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel "Gone With the Wind." She wrote this novel while being bedridden with a broken ankle. After she read all the historical books from the library, her (2nd) husband suggested she write her own story which she did. She used what she learned from the library books, the encyclopedia on "civil war" and included characters from her own life. The character of Rhett appears to be modeled after her first husband, a bootlegger and abusive alcoholic. There is no mention of her having children.