Margaret Mitchell was an American professional Author, and Journalist. Her first and only published novel Gone With the Wind won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936, and also, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. She was a resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia. Her family was wealthy and politically prominent. She had two marriages in her lifetime. She died in a car crash accident in August 16, 1949. She was 48 years old. R.I.P. Margaret Mitchell