margaret mitchell
Name: Ashley (Hye-rim) Kim Subject: ENG105A Date: Oct/14/02 Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist. ... Mitchell grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta and the battles the Confederate Army had fought there during the American Civil War, because her father, Eugene Mitchell, was a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell attended Smith College for one year, but the death of her mother required her to return home to manage the household of her father and older brother. She started her career as a journalist at the Atlanta Journal in 1922 under the name Peggy Mitchell. ... Her husband encouraged Mitchell in her writing aspirations. ... Mitchell wrote the last chapter first, then the first chapter, and thereafter wrote in no particular chronological order. ... His first stop was Atlanta, where he was told of Mitchell¡¯s manuscript.