In June 1936, a blockbuster of a book was published; it gave the world a sense of the Old South, an unforgettable heroine and (in the movie version) the phrase "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." ...

From the archives: The story “'GWTW' author's former homes are mostly memories” was originally published in The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal on December 12, 1984. Original story: ...

On July 10th The Margaret Mitchell House Museum in Atlanta reopened after four years, honoring the place where Mitchell in 1925-1931 wrote the critical and commercial success, Gone with the Wind ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 3, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Talk about a one-hit wonder. On May 3, 1937, American ...

The chair Margaret Mitchell sat in to write “Gone with the Wind” will go to the highest bidder. The author of the masterpiece left behind a few personal items, and Steve Slotin and Slotin Folk Art ...

Author Margaret Mitchell published the American classic novel "Gone with the Wind" on this day in history, June 30, 1936. The 1,000-page novel, set in Georgia during the Civil War and in the ...

If you've read "Gone With the Wind" and enjoyed it, you now have the chance to own more than the book written by Margaret Mitchell. After spending over seven decades tucked away in a barn, her car ...

• "For the protection of our Gulf Coast, to repel invasion, and to place Mobile in a state of security, I shall order out a large militia force from the counties of Mobile, Washington, Clark, Baldwin, ...

ATLANTA (AP) _ A black writer's version of Margaret Mitchell's classic ``Gone With the Wind,'' penned from the perspective of an ex-slave, has Mitchell's estate crying copyright infringement. Acting ...

To one critic, the film felt ‘longer than the Civil War itself’; to others it remains one of the greatest movies of all time. Gone With The Wind, the lavish, four-hour epic starring Vivien Leigh and ...

Margaret Mitchell, pictured above in 1941, started writing while recovering from an ankle injury in 1926. She had read her way through most of Atlanta's Carnegie Library, so her husband brought home a ...