The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia

The success of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gone with the Wind and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1939 film adaptation of her book has earned her a prominent place in the annals of Southern American literature and has led to the publication of dozens of biographies. Yet, as Anita Price Davis, author of The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia from McFarland notes, there has not been a new biography of Mitchell produced since the early 1990s. Moreover, no reference work on fiction or on classic Hollywood cinema provides a comprehensive overview of both the literary and cultural phenomenon of Gone with...