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Gone with the wind book author6/28/2023 ![]() The book drew criticism for its whitewashed depictions of slavery. Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind caused a sensation in Atlanta and went on to sell millions of copies in the United States and throughout the world. Mitchell agreed to change it to Scarlett. Latham encouraged Mitchell to complete the novel, with one important change: the heroine’s name. While she was extremely secretive about her work, Mitchell eventually gave the manuscript to Harold Latham, an editor from New York’s MacMillan Publishing. The story presents a romanticized view of the Old South and does not engage with the horrors of slavery. In tracing Pansy’s life from the antebellum South through the Civil War and into the Reconstruction era, Mitchell drew on the tales she had heard from her parents and other relatives, as well as from Confederate war veterans she had met as a young girl. ![]() ![]() Marsh, in their cramped one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift from her second husband, John R. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon grew restless. In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical injuries. ![]() Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published on June 30, 1936. ![]()
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