Margaret Mitchell Books

Lost Laysen

$30.00
This novel crafted by Margaret Mitchell as a young adult was originally handwritten in two lined notebooks and safely stored by her suitor Henry Angel Love along with intimate letters and treasured photographs of their relationship. The story is a spirited tale of love and honor on a doomed Pacific Island called Layson and offers a glimpse into the "great American novel" Mitchell was to write. Out of print. A must-have for any collector of books or Gone With the Wind fan.

Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell

$10.99
This collection includes rare archival pieces and photographs, personal journal entries and short stories written by Margaret Mitchell from age eight through age 17. The original yellowed copybooks and handmade folders were buried deep in boxes of mildewed shoes, faded lace and dried tubes of paint in the basement of an old Atlanta home until recently discovered by editor Jane Eskridge and friend Wailes Thomas. Experience first-hand the maturation of a world-renowned writer. Published by Hill Street Press, May 2000.

Margaret Mitchell, Reporter

$23.95
The 64 columns in Margaret Mitchell, Reporter present a never-before-seen portrait of the lively, far-ranging mind and an insightful observer well on the way to her full literary power long before the world even knew her name. More than a decade before Margaret Mitchell the novelist conceived the immortal fictional world of her now legendary and hotly debated novel, Mitchell the reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her native Atlanta in search of the who, what, when, and where for her popular column in the Atlanta Journal.

Defying convention, the recent debutante shook things up as one of the first female columnists for the South's largest newspaper. From 1922 to 1926, Mitchell completed hundreds of articles, profiles, columns, interviews, sketches, and book reviews, the best of which are now compiled for the first time. Mitchell's journalism transcends the simple fact-gathering of a seasoned journalist to provide a compelling snapshot of life in the Jazz Age South.

Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind

$17.95
Darden Asbury Pyron’s biography of the author of Gone With the Wind offers a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel and a concise study of the book's shifting critical fortunes in the contemporary South. The life of "Peggy" Mitchell, from her birth in the highest reaches of aristocratic Atlanta in 1900 to her death in 1949 in a car accident, is detailed in a manner that is sympathetic yet wholly objective.

A fascinating mass of contradictions, Mitchell emerges here as alternately retiring and flirty, as a Southern belle confident enough to enter Atlanta's worst prisons and slums during her journalism career at the Atlanta Journal, and as an intensely private person who nonetheless answered every fan letter herself. The breadth of this biography is vast, ranging from the intimate-including the astonishing real-life model for Rhett Butler-to the global-exploring the intense responses to the book from people all over the world who continue to see an image of their own political struggles in Mitchell's depiction of bravery in defense of a lost cause.

Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With the Wind

$32.00
This biography of Margaret Mitchell and her husband John Marsh reveals the significant role he played in the creation of Gone With the Wind. Based on more than 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, Walker's biography of Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh offers a new look into a devoted marriage and fascinating partnership that ultimately created a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In telling the private story of the remarkable marriage of Mitchell and Marsh, author Marianne Walker has paid long-deserved attention to Marsh and his significant role in the creation of Gone With the Wind.

1000 Readers

Great for Kids! $2.95
These popular readers include easy-to-read information, fun facts and trivia, humor, activities and a whole lot more. They are great for ages 7-12 , because although simple, these readers have substance and really engage kids with their stories. They are great for social studies, meeting state and national curriculum standards, individual and group reading programs, centers, library programs, and have many other terrific educational uses.