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Gone with the Wind Letters

The Gone with the Wind Letters gathers the personal correspondence of Margaret Mitchell, the Atlanta writer whose 1936 novel became one of the most widely read books of the twentieth century. Edited by Richard Harwell, the collection follows Mitchell through the years she wrote, revised and published her Civil War epic, and shows her wit, her frustrations and her dealings with friends, family and publishers. Readers see a writer at work, speaking candidly about the people and places that shaped her novel and about the attention that followed its success.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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