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This week’s theme is: fun facts about authors.


How to:


1. Choose a writer you like.

2. Using resources such as Wikipedia, the author’s website, whatever you can find, make a list of interesting facts about the author.

3. Post your fun facts list in your blog, maybe with a photo of the writer, a collage of his or her books, whatever you want.

4. Come sign the Mr Linky below with the url to your fun facts post.

5. As you run into (or deliberately seek out) other Weekly Geeks’ lists, add links to your post for authors you like or authors you think your readers are interested in.

Author: Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind

born: November 8, 1900 in Atlanta Georgia

died: August 16, 1949 at the age of 48


did you know? :

* Margaret Mitchell is most famous for her epic novel Gone With the Wind .

* She attended Smith College, but had to withdraw during her Freshman year to return home and care for her family after her mother passed away.

* She took a job writing a weekly column for the local newspaper under the pen name Peggy Mitchell

* Margaret Mitchell married Berrien “Red” Upshaw in 1922, it was an unhappy marriage and the two eventually divorced. His last words to her were supposedly 'My dear, I don't give a damn'. She later married John Marsh, who was the best man at her wedding to Upshaw.



* Mitchell began writing Gone With the Wind in 1929 while she was bedridden with a broken ankle. She originally named Scarlett 'Pansy O'Hara'! Tara was called 'Fountenoy Hall'.

*She wrote the last chapter of GWTW first, and took it from there. When she was done, she set the manuscript aside, thinking no one would ever read it.


* Gone With the Wind was published on June 30, 1936. It was made into a movie by David O. Selznick, and released three years later. The movie premiered in Atlanta on December 15, 1939.

* Gone With the Wind was the second best-selling book, next to the Bible, at the time of it's publication.


* In May of 1937 Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

* Margaret Mitchell was hit by a speeding car on her way to a
theater with her husband in August 11, 1949. They took her to a hospital where she died 5 days later.

"The usual masculine disillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain."
Margaret Mitchell