Photos: Margaret Mitchell and her legacy

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Photos: Margaret Mitchell and her legacy

Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, marked 113 years since the birth of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind." She was born on Nov. 8, 1900 in Atlanta and lived here for most of her life. She died at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1949 after being struck by a car on Peachtree Street.

Margaret Mitchell and 'Gone With The Wind' star Clark Gable at the premier of the movie. (AJC Staff Photo) 1939

Margaret Mitchell, author of the bestselling novel 'Gone With The Wind' attends the premiere. Julian Boehm, (left). (AJC Staff Photo/Kenneth Rogers) 1939

Margaret Mitchell, author of the bestselling novel 'Gone With The Wind' attends the premier of the long awaited movie. Julian Boehm presents her with a pink camellia corsage. (AJC Staff Photo)

At Margaret Mitchell's party for authors. Edison Mitchell, Miss Margaret Mitchell, Minnie Hite Moody and Harold Latham. - Journal Photo (1941)

Hervey Allen (left), author of one of the outstanding modern romantic novels, 'Anthony Advers,' and Margaret Mitchell, of 'Gone With the Wind' fame, met with Harold S. Latham, vice president and editor in chief of the Macmillan Company, publishers, at a luncheon Friday. Journal photo (1943)

On display at the Gone With the Wind Museum in Newnan are the purse and its contents that Margaret Mitchell carried the night she was struck by a car on Peachtree Street. (AJC photo/Johnny Crawford) 3/96

Restoration work on the Margaret Mitchell House continues Wednesday, April 24, 1996 near downtown Atlanta. The building, nearly destroyed by fire in 1994, is where author Margaret Mitchell wrote 'Gone With The Wind.' Daimler-Benz, Germany's largest industrial group, is restoring the property and plans to make it their centerpiece for the 1996 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury)

"Gone With the Wind" writher Margaret Mitchell at her desk: 1936, Photo: courtesy of the Atlanta Historical Society

Photo by Boyd Lewis. 'Margaret Mitchell's room'. "The sun-washed alcove where Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone with the Wind" - soon to be destroyed by vandalism and arson." Lewis was the last person to occupy The Dump, invited by the landlord to occupy the empty building as a deterrent to vandals. His photographs of the interior of the Midtown flophouse helped the Margaret Mitchell House museum designers reconstruct details of Mitchell's life, after most of the building burned. His tales of Mitchell's ghost pranking a seance that he organized.

Friends teased Margaret Mitchell that the Scarlett on the German edition of "Gone With the Wind" looked like her.

Letter envelope in The Road To Tara Museum. It was said to be from Margaret Mitchell to Henry Love Angel, Sr. (AJC Photo/Louie Favorite) 4/96

Mary Rose Taylor, executive director of the Margaret Mitchell Foundation, and Dr. Otis Smith, recipient of a scholarship (tuition award) from Margaret Mitchell to attend Morehouse School of Medicine, in front of the newly renovated 'dump' in 1997. (AJC Staff Photo/Jean Shifrin)

Fairy roses surround the Marsh plot, where Margaret Mitchell is buried, in Oakland Cemetery Thursday, May 18, 2006. Mitchell's married surname was Marsh. (BITA HONARVAR/AJC staff)

The granddaddy of all Georgia tomes, "Gone with The Wind," probably, thanks to the 1939 film, needs no introduction. Written by lifelong Atlanta resident Margaret Mitchell, who worked as a reporter at The Atlanta Journal, the work of historical fiction follows the up and down life of young, well-to-do heroine Scarlett O'Hara during and after the Civil War. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.

The Margaret Mitchell House in 2012. VINO WONG / VWONG@AJC.COM

The Margaret Mitchell House in 2012. VINO WONG / VWONG@AJC.COM

"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

Eugene Mitchell, nephew of 'Gone With The Wind' author Margaret Mitchell, poses with a copy of his aunt's book at his home in Farmington, Michigan on Saturday, April 7, 2001. (AP Photo/Bill Pugliano)

Undated photo of 'Gone With The Wind' author Margaret Mitchell (AJC Staff Photo/Kenneth Rogers)

Margaret Mitchell House exterior: Greg Mooney of Atlanta Photographers.

The inside of a 1936 first edition of Gone With the Wind shows a signed and inscribed message by author Margaret Mitchell in the Margaret Mitchell "lost" Gone with the Wind manuscript exhibit at the Atlanta History Center in 2011. The inscription reads, "To Augusta and Lee Edwards, old friends, dear friends, this book - "Representing nothing on God's earth now and naught in the waters below it is as a pledge of a nation that passed away. Keep it, dear friends, and show it. Show it to those who will lend an ear to the tale that this trifle will tell - of Liberty, born of patriot's dream, of a storm cradled nation that fell." Margaret Mitchell. Jason Getz jgetz@ajc.com

In the front of the Margaret Mitchell "lost" Gone with the Wind manuscript exhibit a portrait of her and her desk are shown before the opening of the exhibit at the Atlanta History Center Tuesday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 2011. Jason Getz jgetz@ajc.com

In an old photograph, Margaret Mitchell, center, shares a laugh with two associates of her newspaper days, Lambdin Kay, former manager of WSB radio at left, and John Paschall, editor emeritus of the Atlanta Journal, at the Atlanta Pulitzer Prize Dinner in May 1937. Friends and associates maintained that Mitchell had a hearty laugh and enjoyed a good joke. This photograph is shown at the Margaret Mitchell "lost" Gone with the Wind manuscript exhibit at the Atlanta History Center Tuesday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 2011. Jason Getz jgetz@ajc.com

In an old photograph, prior to publication of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell serves tea photographed by Atlanta Journal photographer Tracy O'Neill shown at the Margaret Mitchell "lost" Gone with the Wind manuscript exhibit at the Atlanta History Center Tuesday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., May 25, 2011. A note next to this photograph reads, "Presented in a domestic setting, Mitchell had yet to suffer the indignations of fame that led her to often declare she was a "normal person" having always lived with "simple good taste." Jason Getz jgetz@ajc.com

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Margaret Mitchell and 'Gone With The Wind' star Clark Gable at the premier of the movie. (AJC Staff Photo) 1939

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