On This Day in American History |
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On November 8, 1900, the author of Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, is born in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her writing career as a journalist, but after an injury, she devoted herself to fiction largely about the South before and during the Civil War. Gone with the Wind sold over 1 million copies within six months of its publication in 1936. Eight million copies had been sold by the time Mitchell died in 1949. To date, over 25 million copies have been sold. The book was so popular that it was made into a classic 1939 movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. |
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