biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1900–49)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She studied for a medical career, but turned to journalism, writing for The Atlanta Journal (1922–6). After her marriage to John R Marsh in 1925, and an injury to her ankle which forced her retirement, she began the 10-year task of writing her only novel, Gone with the Wind (1936), which won the Pulitzer Prize, sold over 25 million copies, was translated into 30 languages, and was the subject of an Oscar-winning-film (1939). |
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