Margaret recalled, “When we went calling, I was usually scooped up onto a lap – told that I didn’t look like a soul on either side of the family – and then forgotten for the rest of the afternoon while the gathering spiritedly refought the Civil War. Parties and family gatherings supplied her with much Civil War history that she would later use in the writing of Gone with the Wind. She enjoyed discovering the history of Atlanta and Peachtree Street, where she lived. She had an enduring connection and great love for Atlanta. From an early age, Margaret took an interest in Atlanta’s history and the Civil War. She wrote and produced plays and cast herself and her friends in the parts. Margaret enjoyed writing stories and plays and relished in the telling of her tales. She would gather her friends around her as she told them tales. Margaret was a writer from the time she could hold a pencil and a storyteller almost as soon as she could talk. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on Novemin Atlanta, Georgia where she lived all of her life. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, “I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didn’t.” Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption, people who fought their way through hard times triumphantly and came out survivors.
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