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This Week in History
On June 30, 1936, Margaret Mitchell published her best-selling novel, which later became a blockbuster movie, Gone With the Wind. It all started after Mitchell was forced to retire from her journalist position with the Atlanta Journal after a series of physical injuries. She had quite a lot of time on her hands and with a natural passion for writing along with a brand new typewriter she sat down at her desk one day and began writing about an Atlanta woman named Pansy O'Hara. The book would end up selling millions of copies world-wide and winning a Pulitzer Prize. All of this however did not come without some criticism. The book romanticized the Old South and all that it was, but the tale of war and passion captured the minds of readers everywhere. In 1937, a year after the book was published, Mitchell sold the movie rights to her book for a record high $50,000. | 
