“The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.”

American novelist and journalist

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist, best known for Gone with the Wind, published during her lifetime in 1936. She lived from 1900 to 1949, and the book brought her both the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. She wrote only one novel that appeared while she was alive, but her earlier writing also reached readers later. After her death, a novella she had written as a teenager, Lost Laysen, and a collection of her girlhood writings were published, along with newspaper articles she had written for The Atlanta Journal, later issued in book form.