Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist best known for *Gone with the Wind* (1936), a sweeping Civil War epic that became one of the bestselling novels in history and won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Atlanta-born writer produced no other novels, dying in 1949 after being struck by a car.
Her name often stands in for the romanticized Old South her book depicts.
Civil War era epic
- Rhett ButlerSouthern gentleman antihero
- TaraIrish feminine name
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
Scarlett O'Hara · Reconstruction · plantation · historical fiction · Southern belle · Old South · Confederacy · bestseller
Name shared by country and state
- Sherman's March1864 Georgia military campaign
- burning of Atlanta1864 city's fiery destruction
- Southern societyCulture below the Mason-Dixon
- debutanteFormally introduced young woman
Mid-twentieth century year
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
- distinctionNotable difference or honor
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
ceremony · judges · honored · celebrated
Prosperous 1920s era
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- flappers1920s modern young women
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
speakeasies · suffrage · women's rights · New Deal · World War I · radio · talkies · Charleston
Gone with the Wind
Civil War era epic
- Rhett ButlerSouthern gentleman antihero
- TaraIrish feminine name
- antebellumBefore a war's start
Scarlett O'Hara · Civil War · Reconstruction · plantation · historical fiction · Southern belle · Old South · Confederacy · bestseller · epic
Georgia
Name shared by country and state
- Sherman's March1864 Georgia military campaign
- burning of Atlanta1864 city's fiery destruction
- Southern societyCulture below the Mason-Dixon
1937
Mid-twentieth century year
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- achievementAccomplished goal or deed
- distinctionNotable difference or honor
laureate · ceremony · judges · honored · celebrated
Roaring Twenties
Prosperous 1920s era
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- flappers1920s modern young women
Prohibition · speakeasies · suffrage · women's rights · New Deal · World War I · radio · talkies · Charleston · Harlem Renaissance
- Georgia AuthorsFlannery O'Connor, Alice Walker
- 1930s AuthorsSteinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Orwell, Agatha Christie
- Authors MHerman Melville, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Miller, Stephenie Meyer
- Famous GeorgiansJimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr., Ray Charles, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron
- British M AuthorsA.A. Milne, Milne, Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe, John Milton
- Margaret nicknamesMeg, Peggy, Peg, Madge, Marjorie
Margaret MitchellHarriet Beecher Stowe
Toni Morrison · Frederick Douglass · Alex Haley · Colson Whitehead · W.E.B. Du Bois
Margaret MitchellIsaac Asimov
Stephen King · Agatha Christie · Danielle Steel · James Patterson · Alexandre Dumas