"I sold the moving picture rights to Mr. Selznick. Rhett and Scarlett are his to have and to hold and to cast as he sees fit. If he should botch the job that will be his worry. I have made up my mind very definitely about that movie version--I'll have nothing to do with it....My movie tastes run to Donald Duck and the four Marx brothers, none of whom, I believe, could portray the role of Scarlett or Rhett."
"The reason it took so long in the writing was that my own health was not so good, and also every member of my family and all my friends were seriously ill during that period. I spent months and years in hospital corridors and outside of operating rooms. Finally it seemed that I would never finish it, due to the many outside calls on my time, so I put it away and forgot about it. I never submitted it to any publisher or any agent, as I thought it pretty terrible....[H. S. Latham of Macmillan] wa more...
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The daughter of an attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society, Margaret Mitchell grew up amid tales of Sherman's March and other Civil War history. Upon graduating high school, she attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for a year, but was called home when her mother died. In 1922 she began writing for the Atlanta Journal using her nickname, Peggy Mitchell, as a byline. After an unsuccessful marriage to Berrien K. Upshaw, Mitchell married John R. Marsh, who encouraged more...
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1900 Atlanta, Georgia, Southeastern States, Southern States, United States,
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Loved this all all her books