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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Mitchell was born November 8, 1900, in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-mitchell-9410340</ref>  She was an Irish Catholic whose family had lived in Atlanta for four generations, before it was called Atlanta, and enjoyed making stories of the Civil War as a child.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/margaret-mitchell-american-rebel-biography-of-margaret-mitchell/2043/</ref>  As a child, she enjoyed being called "Jimmy" and acting like a boy to defy social convention, even once dancing a forbidden dance called the Apache.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/margaret-munnerlyn-mitchell-2242.php</ref>  She attended a prestigious finishing school where she learned drama and edited the yearbook, but in World War One the girls were in demand for dances with soldiers, and at such a dance, she fell in love with one who later died in France.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/margaret-mitchell-1900-1949</ref>  He was likely an abusive husband, and she was glad to then marry John Marsh, the best man from their wedding.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/margaret-mitchell</ref>

Mitchell was born November 8, 1900, in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-mitchell-9410340</ref>  She was an Irish Catholic whose family had lived in Atlanta for four generations, before it was called Atlanta, and enjoyed making stories of the Civil War as a child.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/margaret-mitchell-american-rebel-biography-of-margaret-mitchell/2043/</ref>  As a child, she enjoyed being called "Jimmy" and acting like a boy to defy social convention, even once dancing a forbidden dance called the Apache.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/margaret-munnerlyn-mitchell-2242.php</ref>  She attended a prestigious finishing school where she learned drama and edited the yearbook, but in World War One the girls were in demand for dances with soldiers, and at such a dance, she fell in love with one who later died in France.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/margaret-mitchell-1900-1949</ref>  He was likely an abusive husband, and she was glad to then marry John Marsh, the best man from their wedding.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/margaret-mitchell</ref>

During her marriage to Marsh, she wrote many scraps of novels and columns but kept them very private and later requested them burnt.<ref>http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-gone-with-the-wind/</ref>  However, one underlying project of separately drafted chapters and overly rewritten scene she sent to a publisher, who helped her compose it into an epic novel and Southern classic.<ref>"Mitchell, Margaret."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  In June 1936, she released ''Gone With the Wind'', the story of Scarlett O'Hara in the [[Civil War]], which brought Mitchell lots of unwanted publicity and may have caused her to order the original manuscript burned.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137476187/margaret-mitchells-gone-with-the-wind-turns-75</ref>

During her marriage to Marsh, she wrote many scraps of novels and columns but kept them very private and later requested them burnt.<ref>http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-gone-with-the-wind/</ref>  However, one underlying project of separately drafted chapters and overly rewritten scene she sent to a publisher, who helped her compose it into an epic novel and Southern classic.<ref>"Mitchell, Margaret."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  In June 1936, she released ''Gone With the Wind'', the story of Scarlett O'Hara in the [[Civil War]], which brought Mitchell lots of unwanted publicity and may have caused her to order the original manuscript burned.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137476187/margaret-mitchells-gone-with-the-wind-turns-75</ref>

She was struck by a speeding taxi driver while crossing Peachtree Street and died August 16, 1949.<ref>http://www.biblio.com/margaret-mitchell/author/2993</ref>  She is considered one of Atlanta's greatest writers along with [[Joel Chandler Harris]], and her house is now a literary memorial.<ref>http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/atlanta.html</ref>

She was struck by a speeding taxi driver while crossing Peachtree Street and died August 16, 1949.<ref>http://www.biblio.com/margaret-mitchell/author/2993</ref>  She is considered one of Atlanta's greatest writers along with [[Joel Chandler Harris]], and her house is now a literary memorial.<ref>http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/atlanta.html</ref>