Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949

The phenomenal success of \ Gone with the Wind\ changed the history of publishing and moviemaking. It also changed Margaret Mitchell's existence. \ Alas,\ the Atlanta journalist wrote to screenwriter Sidney Howard in 1937, \ where has my quiet peaceful life gone?\ Margaret Mitchell was a born storyteller and these 300 or so letters - culled from over 50,000 items in her papers at the University of Georgia - are filled with warmth, humanity, and lively sense of humor of a very private woman who tried desperately not to be lionized.