瑪格麗特·米切爾Margaret Mitchell(1900—1949) 美國現代女作家。1900年11月8日出生於佐治亞州的亞特蘭大。1925年與佐治亞熱力公司的廣告部主任約翰·馬什結婚。曾獲文學博士學位,擔任過《亞特蘭大新聞報》的記者。1937年她因本書獲得普利策獎,1939年獲紐約南方協會金質獎章。
1949年8月11日,米切爾去世,享年49歲。死後葬於亞特蘭大市的奧克蘭公墓。
Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist who wrote under the name?Peggy Mitchell.Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the?American Civil War-era
novel,?Gone with the Wind, for which she won the?National Book Awardfor Most Distinguished Novel of 1936?and the?Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of
Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager,?Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for?The Atlanta Journal?was republished in
book form.