Mitchell (1900-1949), an American author, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern United States. Her father was a lawyer and a former president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell attended Washington Theological Seminary and Smith College in Massachusetts. Later, she worked as a reporter for the local newspaper, The Atlanta Journal, and in 1925 married John. Marsh, and after their marriage resigned from her newspaper position to devote herself to writing. Mitchell published only one book in her life, Gone with the Wind. She began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926, and 10 years later, the work was released, and once it was published, it drew a strong reaction. Gone with the Wind has been translated into 18 languages, spread all over the world, and is still a bestseller. Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and was made into a movie in 1938, which was released in China under the translated title Gone with the Wind.