Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind : A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood (Hardcover)

from TheFlamingoReads

If you are looking for the story behind Rhett, Scarlett, and the rest of the characters in "Gone With The Wind" or a biography of Margaret Mitchell, you won't find it in this book. Instead you'll read about the arduous, life-consuming, and frustrating journey to get "GWTW" on paper (and eventuall...

from kqueue

Margaret Mitchell's work is one of the great American novels, and was written by an intensely private woman. This book meticulously tracks how Mitchell's idea became one of the greatest successes in publishing, as well as providing a fascinating look at the publishing industry and copyright. The ...

from dhelmen

I was ignorant at the beginning of this book of anything about Mitchell except her being an author. I was very interested and surprised to read about a strong "Career Girl" who started out in journalism. I appreciated the detail about the changes the book brought to her life, in avoiding publicit...

from bnbookgirl

Margaret Mitchell was reluctant to grasp the stardom that came with the writing of Gone With the Wind. She was an extremely private person; it was questionable at the time if she would attend many of the promotions for the book and movie. Mitchell was raised in the era where children were seen an...

from Christiana5

A very unusual, and interesting book. It's essentially a biography of the Gone With the Wind story. I really didn't know much about Margaret Mitchell before reading this, but I know a bit more about her now, and quite a bit more about the impacts on an author of writing a best seller; very sad, i...