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Margaret Mitchell (1) (1900–1949)

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Margaret Mitchell, 1900 - 1949 Novelist Margaret Mitchell was born November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia to Eugene Muse Mitchell, a prominent attorney, and Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, a suffragette. She attended Smith College from 1918-1919 to study psychiatry, but she had to return to Atlanta when toon meer her mother died during the great flu epidemic of 1918. In 1922, she married Red Upshaw but left him three months later and had the marriage annulled. In 1925, she married John Marsh, the best man at her first wedding. He died in 1952. Mitchell joined the prestigious Debutante Club, but her public drinking, smoking and her performance of an Apache dance in a sensual costume, ended that for her. She was refused membership to the Atlanta Junior League. She began her writing career as a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal. She authored a freelance column for the paper called Elizabeth Bennett's Gossip. Mitchell is the author of the best selling novel of all time, "Gone with the Wind" (1936). In 1939, the film version was a smash hit and it received ten Academy Awards. Scarlett's original name was Pansy, which was also the book's working title, but editors insisted that it would be changed because of its use in the North to refer to homosexuals. Other early titles of the book were "Tote the Weary Load" and "Tomorrow Is Another Day." It is believed that the character Rhett Butler was inspired by her first husband Red Upshaw, and the character Ashley Wilkes was inspired by her first fiance, the attractive and idealistic Lieutenant Clifford Henry. Henry was killed in France during World War I and Mitchell declared him as the one great love of her life. On August 16, 1949, Margaret Mitchell died of injuries she received when she was hit by an intoxicated cabdriver while crossing Peachtree Street in Atlanta. She was mourned by so many that tickets had to be distributed for the funeral. Published posthumously was "Lost Laysen" (1996), which was a novella Mitchell wrote in 1915, at the age of fifteen, as a gift for her boyfriend. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Werken van Margaret Mitchell

Gejaagd door de wind (1936) 23,304 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind [filmopname] (1939) — Novel — 998 exemplaren
Verzonken Laysen (1996) 403 exemplaren
Gejaagd door de wind, deel 1 (1939) 111 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind (Part 2/4) (1957) 97 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind (Part 2/2) (1937) 92 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind (Part 1/4) (1976) 84 exemplaren
Gejaagd door de wind, deel 2 (1937) 70 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind (Part 1/2) (1937) 69 exemplaren
Gejaagd door de wind, deel 3 (1976) 61 exemplaren
Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000) 29 exemplaren
Gone with the Wind (Part 3/4) (1976) 13 exemplaren
Tuulest viidud I 2 exemplaren
Vējiem līdzi (2001) 2 exemplaren
Przeminęło z wiatrem. T. 2 (1993) 2 exemplaren
Mitchell Margaret 2 exemplaren
Via col vento (1991) 1 exemplaar
Gone with the Wind, Vol. 2 (of 2) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Scarlett 1 exemplaar
Gone with the Wind, Vol. 1 (of 2) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Przeminęło z wiatrem. T. 1 (2003) 1 exemplaar
I Want to Be Famous (2002) 1 exemplaar
Vējiem līdzi 1 exemplaar
Gone with the Wind 1 exemplaar
Unesennye vetrom. T. 2 (2014) 1 exemplaar
Unesennye vetrom. Tom 2 (2013) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Mitchell, Margaret
Officiële naam
Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn
Geboortedatum
1900-11-08
Overlijdensdatum
1949-08-16
Graflocatie
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
Hit and run accident
Woonplaatsen
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Opleiding
Smith College
Beroepen
journalist
novelist
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Georgia Women of Achievement (1994)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame

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De best-seller aller tijden: „Gejaagd door de wind" — met uitzondering van de Bijbel het meest verkochte boek ter wereld! Het is de boeiende en ontroerende roman over Scarlett O'Hara, de verwende dochter van een rijke katoenplanter. - Eén keer trouwt ze uit koppigheid en een tweede keer uit berekening. Jarenlang jaagt ze achter de verkeerde man aan. Maar als een tijger vecht zij voor haar bezit gedurende de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog. „Niemand, die plezier heeft in lezen, kan zich de weelde veroorloven dit boek ongelezen te laten," schreef de New York Times. 37 jaar geleden werd deze trilogie verfilmd met Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable en Leslie Howard in de hoofdrollen en nog steeds wordt deze film overal ter wereld gevraagd. „Gejaagd door de wind" is nog steeds miljoenen waard!… (meer)
 
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Werken
73
Leden
25,623
Populariteit
#815
Waardering
½ 4.3
Besprekingen
470
ISBNs
440
Talen
30
Favoriet
58

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