These years were, she would later say, the happiest of her life. Mitchell had become a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal in 1922, and by the time she resigned in 1926 she was considered the paper's leading feature writer. The following year Mitchell wedded John Marsh, a union that would last her lifetime. Their marriage lasted only three months, although they were not divorced until 1924. Four years later she married Berrien Kinnard Upshaw, an attractive, romantic, but violent and unstable man who is often regarded as the prototype of Gone With the Wind's Rhett Butler. After her mother's death of influenza during the epidemic of 1918 Mitchell returned to Atlanta. Her venturesomeness as a young woman, which included a year at Smith College and a subsequent career in Atlanta journalism, reflected the influence of her mother, Maybelle, an ardent supporter of woman suffrage. They indoctrinated her so effectively that Mitchell was ten years old before she learned that the South had lost the war. Author of Gone With the Wind, the most popular novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) was born on November 8 in Atlanta, Georgia, the burning of which became a spectacular scene in the immensely successful motion picture made from the book.Īs a child Margaret Mitchell was saturated with stories of the Civil War told to her by family members who had lived through it.
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