Using the voluminous correspondence of Mitchell and her family, editors, publishing executives, agents, movie producers, literary executors, and fans, an incredibly rich story emerges about all the people involved in this great American success story. It’s been too long since I revisited the book, or the film for that matter, and I was repeatedly surprised and delighted by the stories Brown and Wiley, Jr. Brown and John Wiley, Jr.’s new history of Mitchell’s masterpiece (Brown is a regular contributor to this magazine). So it was with great eagerness that I dove into Ellen F. Margaret Mitchell gave me Scarlett fever, and I am eternally grateful. The plump red paperback affected me in a way that The Iliad or The Good Earth (the reading list of my ninth-grade literature class) decidedly did not. It was that simple a transition from ‘regular person’ to reader to bibliophile. But I can trace my subsequent devotion to books to the reading of one title- Gone With the Wind-at the age of fourteen. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood by Ellen F. Read more 'William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary' Opens May 4Īmherst, MA -The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates the golden anniversary. Los Angeles - A fascinating letter by Albert Einstein on the Jewish People’s rights. Read more Einstein Letter Defending his Jewish Heritage to be Auctioned New York - Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, April 16.

Read more Printed & Manuscript Americana Realizes $1 Million at Swann Los Angeles - An pair of extraordinary letters by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. New York - Nineteenth- and twentieth-century luminaries, science-fiction and more form Swann Galleries’ 19th. Read more Bond Abounds in Literature Auction at Swann on May 14 New York - Swann Galleries’ sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Thursday, April. Read more A Record for Peruvian Photographer Martín Chambi at Swann Galleries

Read more Waverly Rare Books to Conduct May 2 Judaica Auctionįalls Church, VA - Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinn’s Auction Galleries, will. West Palm Beach, FL - On April 18, runway action halted temporarily as fashionistas. In the News Sale of Karl Lagerfeld Original Fashion Drawings Attracts Intense Worldwide Bidding

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