It was published some eighty years after it was written, in the year 1996, and was a New York Times Best Seller.ĭuring this same time, she is known to have penned a four hundred page novel called “The Big Four”, about girls in a boarding school.

He died in the year 1945 and the novella stayed undiscovered among some of the letters that she had written him until the year 1994. She gave this novella, which was written into two notebooks to Henry Love Angel, a boyfriend. Mary Belle Mitchell kept the stories her daughter wrote in white enamel bread boxes and many boxes of her stories were then stored in the house by the time she headed off to college.Īt the age of fifteen, she wrote a romance novella, called “Lost Laysen” in the year 1916. Later she would write her stories in notebooks. She would fashion book covers for each of her stories, binding the tablet paper pages together and then adding artwork of her own.īy the age of eleven she named her publishing enterprise “Urchin Publishing Co”. She was a precocious and imaginative writer, and started with stories about animals before progressing on to adventure stories and fairy tales. They each wept as they read Johnston’s “The Long Roll” and “Cease Firing”.

Her mom read Mary Johnston’s work to her before she was able to read herself. Henty, along with the “Rover Boys” series by Edward Stratemeyer, and the “Tom Swift” series. Young Margaret, who was an avid reader, read “boys’ stories” written by G. It became the highest grossing movie in Hollywood history, and won a record breaking amount of Oscars. The novel was famously adapted into an Academy Award winning movie in the year 1939 which starred Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland. It is one of the most popular novels of all time, selling over thirty million copies. Margaret won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel in 1936 for “Gone With the Wind”. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on Novemand was an American journalist and novelist.

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