Born	Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Died	August 16, 1949 (aged 48) Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta
Pen name	Margaret Mitchell
Occupation	Journalist, Author
Genres	Romance novel, Historical fiction
Notable work(s)	Gone with the Wind Lost Laysen
Notable award(s)	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937) National Book Award
Spouse(s)	Berrien Kinnard Upshaw (1922–1924; divorced) John Robert Marsh (1925–1949; widower)
Children	none
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

Legacy
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would incorrectly think it was the true story of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The film version of the novel "amplified this effect". Scholars of the period have written in recent years about the negative effects the novel has had on race relations by its resurrection of Lost Cause mythology.