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MARGARET MUNNERLYN MITCHELL
1900-1949
"If the novel has a theme it is that of survival. ... " Margaret Mitchell @ McMillan 1936
Author of the best-selling novel of all time, Margaret Mitchell was born Nov. ...
The imaginative child was fascinated with stories of the Civil War that she heard first from her parents and great aunts, who lived at the family’s Jonesboro rural home, and later, from grizzled (and sometimes profane) Confederate veterans who regaled the girl with battlefield stories as Margaret, astride her pony, rode through the countryside around Atlanta with the men. ... Young Margaret attended private school, but was not an exceptional student. ... ”
Chastened, Margaret Mitchell returned to school, eventually entering Smith College in the fall of 1918, not long after the United States entered World War I. ... In January 1919, Maybelle Mitchell died during a flu epidemic and Margaret Mitchell left college to take charge of the Atlanta household of her father and her older brother, Stephens.
Although she made her society debut in 1920, Margaret was far too free-spirited and intellectual to be content with the life of a debutante. ...
By 1922, Margaret Mitchell was a headstrong “Flapper” pursued by two men, an ex-football player and bootlegger, Berrien “Red” Upshaw, and a lanky newspaperman, John R. ... Margaret Mitchell, he said, “was a vibrant, vital person – excited, always, and seeking excitement. ... The two held their wedding reception at their new ground-floor apartment at 979 Crescent Avenue – a house which Margaret affectionately nicknamed “The Dump.”
Only months after their marriage, Margaret left her job at the Journal to convalesce from a series of injuries. ... Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her sweeping novel in May 1937. ... 15, 1939 with Margaret Mitchell and all of the stars in attendance. ... 11, 1949, while crossing the intersection of Peachtree and 13th – only three blocks from “The Dump”, Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding taxi. ...
Margaret Mitchell and Black Atlanta
Although of the details of Margaret Mitchell’s public life are well known, there was a secret life which only recently surfaced with the discovery of Margaret Mitchell’s extraordinary involvement with Atlanta’s African American community.
At a time when segregation was the law of the land and the Ku Klux Klan regularly held rallies at nearby Stone Mountain, Margaret Mitchell was working on several projects with black Atlantans, notably one involving medical education. ... The first person he approached was Margaret Mitchell. Despite the stern admonitions she received from her parents about hoarding money in time of war, Margaret agreed to an anonymous donation of $80, enough at that time to put one student through one year of medical school. ... Otis Smith, the first African American in the state of Georgia to be certified as a pediatrician, approached Mary Rose Taylor, chairman of the Margaret Mitchell House, Inc. ... ”
His tuition and fees were completely paid, but it was 35 years later (and Margaret Mitchell had long ago died) before Dr. Mays revealed the source of the gift – one of about 40 to 50 Margaret Mitchell had made to African American medical students. ... In order to play with her brother, Stephens, and the other boys in the neighborhood, Margaret quickly becomes a tomboy. ... He is stationed in France and Margaret starts her first year at Smith College in the fall of 1918. ... Soon after, her mother becomes ill, and Margaret rushes home to see her but does not make it in time. ... Margaret marries Upshaw in September of that year and the couple moves in with Margarets family. Shortly thereafter, Red becomes abusive, and Margaret realizes he is both a bootlegger and an alcoholic. ... Margaret lands a job as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal Magazine. ...
1925 Margaret marries John Marsh on July 4 (she liked to tell her friends she was married on "Independence Day").
Approximate Word count = 3169
Approximate Pages = 12.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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