Margaret Mitchell

<p>Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia. She worked as an investigative feature writer for the <em>Atlanta Journal</em> before a severe ankle injury confined her to bed in 1926. Encouraged by her husband, she spent a decade typing the manuscript of <em>Gone with the Wind</em>.</p><p>Published in 1936, the epic saga of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Mitchell was also a dedicated philanthropist, secretly providing full medical scholarships for Black students at Morehouse College before her tragic death in 1949.</p>