Mitchell in this letter also address the forthcoming release of a movie based on her book. Mitchell herself was unprepared for the colossal success of this novel (it was a record-breaker in sales and a 1937 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize), writing here that “my life, since the publication of my novel a year ago, has been lived in the middle of a tornado.” Penned only a year after the release of Margaret Mitchell's sweeping and quintessentially Southern novel Gone with the Wind to public and critical claim, this letter considers its unresolved and intriguing ending-a subject that was a great matter of speculation by international and national audiences alike. MARGARET MITCHELL DENIES KNOWING THE FATE OF RHETT AND SCARLETT AND WRITES EARNESTLY ABOUT THE UPCOMING MOVIE AND NEWFOUND FAME. “To tell the truth, I do not know what happened to this obstinate couple after the end of the book …” -Margaret Mitchell, in the present letter “Every once in a while a book appeals to generation after generation, and makes for itself a permanent place in our literature Gone With the Wind is one of those classics… Her novel of the Civil War and Emancipation deals with themes that are endlessly fascinating.” –Jacques Barzun Typed Letter Signed on Gone With the Wind
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