1900–1949 · Atlanta journalist & novelist · Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1937
Margaret Mitchell was an Atlanta-born journalist who wrote for the Atlanta Journal’s Sunday Magazine from 1922 until an ankle injury ended her newspaper career. She spent roughly a decade writing her only published novel, Gone with the Wind (Macmillan, 30 June 1936), which won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has sold more than 30 million copies. Scarlett’s hunger vow — the line the 1939 film made famous — was hers first, on the page, three years before Vivien Leigh spoke a compressed version of it.