Mitchell, Margaret, 1903-

Mitchell was born 1900 Nov. 8 in Atlanta, Ga., to Eugene M. and Maybelle Mitchell. She graduated from Washington's Seminary in 1918, and on 1922 Sept. 19, married Berrin K. Upshaw, from whom she was divorced two years later. She then married John Robert Marsh in 1925. In 1926, after a severe ankle injury forced her to quit writing for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, she began her novel, which was substantially finished by 1929. It was published as Gone With the Wind in 1936, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937. She died in 1949 Aug. 16, after being struck by an automobile.