PBS Profiles Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

[Frank W. Baker]

Margaret Mitchell was no ordinary writer. The one book she published in her lifetime – Gone With the Wind – sold millions of copies at the height of the Great Depression in America and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, 75 years ago.  With over 30 million copies sold to date, it is one of the world’s best-selling novels. Equally impressive, the film adaptation of Gone With the Wind broke all box office records when it premiered in 1939, and received 10 Academy Awards. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel premieres nationally Monday, April 2 at 9 p.m.