Margaret Mitchell's Death
Born (Birthday) November 8, 1900
Death Date August 16, 1949
Age of Death 48 years
Cause of Death Traffic Collision
Profession Novelist
The novelist Margaret Mitchell died at the age of 48. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Author of the bestselling novel, Gone with the Wind, which received both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed, 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.
She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter of suffragist Mary Isabel Stephens and attorney Eugene Muse Mitchell. She was briefly married to Berrien K. Upshaw before meeting John R. Marsh, the man who would become second husband. She had no children.
Quotes
"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.
"What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
"The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.