![]() ![]() Two standard scholarly indexes on the Georgia Library Learning Online network (GALILEO) show that Mitchell's work has attracted at least 69 separate critical articles and monographs since 1963 ( MLA Bibliography) and at least 25 dissertations since 1980 ( Dissertation Abstracts). Perpetually in print, GWTW has been published in more than forty different countries, and debate and study of Mitchell's literary achievement has been practically as persistent and widespread as the book's popularity. Meanwhile Atlanta-born "Peggy" Mitchell won both of the United States's two highest honors for fiction - the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When it was published in 1936, Mitchell's romance of the Old South sold more copies than any other American novel in history. The amazing popularity of her novel Gone with the Wind, its heroine Scarlett O'Hara, and the film they inspired made ex- Atlanta Journal reporter Margaret Mitchell a twentieth-century cultural phenomenon. ![]()
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