With her broken ankle keeping Mitchell off her feet, in 1926 she began writing Gone With the Wind. As seemed to be the case in Mitchell’s life, though, yet another good thing was to come to an end too quickly, as her journalist career ended in 1926 due to complications from a broken ankle. Mitchell would get married a second time during this period, wedding John Robert Marsh in 1925. The same year she was married, Mitchell landed a job with the Atlanta Journal Sunday magazine, where she ended up writing nearly 130 articles. The couple was married in 1922, but it ended abruptly four months later when Upshaw left for the Midwest and never returned.

Mitchell finished out her freshman year at Smith and then returned to Atlanta to prepare for the upcoming debutante season, during which she met Berrien Kinnard Upshaw. Four months later, tragedy would strike when Mitchell’s mother died of influenza. In 1918, Mitchell enrolled at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. At the private Woodberry School, Mitchell took her creativity in new directions, directing and acting in plays she wrote. She wrote hundreds of books as a child, but her literary endeavors weren’t limited to novels and stories. At an early age, even before she could write, Mitchell loved to make up stories, and she would later write her own adventure books, crafting their covers out of cardboard. Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia, into an Irish-Catholic family. Mitchell was struck by a car and died in 1949, leaving behind Gone With the Wind as her only full length novel. More than 30 million copies of Mitchell’s Civil War-era masterpiece have been sold worldwide, and it has been translated into 27 languages. The film version, also lauded far and wide, came out just three years later. Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind made Mitchell an instant celebrity and earned her the Pulitzer Prize. After a broken ankle immobilized her in 1926, Mitchell started writing a novel that would become Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist.

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