"A simple story about a totally ordinary people ..."
Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 in Atlanta, "the heart of the American South," the family lawyer. In addition to activities such as dancing and horse riding, the girl was fond of literature, with 9 years of starting to write their stories and to create pieces for the school theater.
After high school, she studied at the seminary Margaret of Washington and Smith College in Massachusetts. Their profession she chose journalism, according to the early twentieth century, a purely male profession. Mitchell worked for several years as a reporter in the newspaper "Atlanta Journal."
In 1925, she, at the request of her husband, an insurance agent John Marsh, left her job, but to become a typical provincial housewife was not going to. According to legend, the creation of the novel began in 1926 with the writing of the main sentence of the last chapter: "She failed to understand either one of the two men whom she loved, and now lost both."
The theme of the novel by Margaret defined "survival" and the novel itself is called a simple story about an absolutely ordinary people. Sketches for the future of the novel were the stories her grandmother and mother of the war the southern and northern US states, where veterans from both sides were the ancestors of Margaret, the soldiers Yankee soldiers and Confederate.
Finished manuscript was sent to the publisher only after 9 years, in 1935, and in 1936 the novel "Gone with the Wind" was first published, and immediately won a resounding success. Mitchell in a moment became popular people: thousands of letters from readers, huge queues for autographs. But all the attributes of popularity and commercialization of novel attempts were alien to the writer: she refused to be interviewed, has not given consent to the creation of the musical based on the novel, and the use of advertising names of the main characters. Also the writer refused to write a sequel, which became a bestseller and received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize.
Did not object to it only against the film adaptation of his work, however, has once again surprised everyone with his refusal to participate in the work on the painting. The film premiered in Atlanta in 1939, largely due to the stunning game actors Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, film adaptation of "Gone With the Wind," repeated the resounding success of the novel.
Thanks to his work becoming wealthy woman, Margaret Mitchell remained a humble man, afford to spend significant amounts only in the treatment of her husband.
Popularity Scarlett has become something of a national heroine, writer surprised, because it is described in the novel is far from a delightful woman who behave inappropriately, which could be respected only for its character. But, nevertheless, whimsical and capricious green-eyed beauty, with its tense relations with men, has won the sympathy of readers. Scarlett uttered in the film, the phrase "I will not think about it now ... I'll think about it tomorrow! "Cited still thousands of women worldwide.
Mitchell success as a writer spawned accusations of plagiarism - more than ten years, Margaret denied rumors that the authorship does not belong to her, and her husband, his elder brother, the editors of the publisher.
The fate of the writer released only for a short 48 years of life. August 11, 1949 Mitchell transition Peachtree Street, after the novel became the most famous in Atlanta, killed by a drunk taxi driver. Were seriously injured, died in hospital on August 16. Husband of Margaret fulfilled orders, left her in his will - destroyed almost its entire archive, leaving only the materials proving that the authorship of the book belongs to Mitchell.
Margaret Mitchell will forever remain in history as the author of one, but of the bestselling book, but, of course, even after many years of "Gone with the Wind" will be a masterpiece of world literature and cinema.