Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist born in 1900 in Atlanta, USA. Her only novel, Gone with the Wind, achieved a fame unmatched by any other novelist before her. She began her career in 1921 as a journalist for an Atlanta newspaper. In 1925, she married the editor and retired from journalism.
Mitchell devoted herself to writing her famous novel, Gone with the Wind, which she completed over the course of 10 years. Mitchell rejected numerous lucrative offers to write a sequel, but in 1980, her descendants granted permission to author Alexandra Ripley to write the sequel. This story tells of love and war during the American Civil War, at the beginning of the period of moral decadence that occurred in the United States and after that war. It tells the story of a simple girl whose early life was destroyed by love, which threw her into the arms of a man who loved her deeply, but whom she gave nothing but hatred. The story ends with an unsettling ending: painful, optimistic, or desperate.