Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
by Anne Edwards
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Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination. Indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone with the Wind took the American public by storm and went on to become one of the most popular books and motion pictures of all time. The book was a phenomenon whose success has never been equaled, but it shattered Margaret Mitchell's private life. In Road to Tara, Anne Edwards show more tells the real story of Margaret Mitchell and the extraordinary novel that has become part of our heritage. show lessTags
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If you love Gone With the Wind you'll love this, a biography of Margaret Mitchell author of GWTW. Road to Tara focuses mostly on how Mitchell came to write and have Gone With the Wind published. Apparently she didn't write it as a sequential narrative, but wrote scenes and chapters ad hoc over many years, not putting them into any chronological order. When the manuscript was presented to the editor all the scenes had to be put into sequence.
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Anne Edwards is the New York Times best-selling author of Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor as well as several other biographies, novels, and children's books. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.
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- Canonical title
- Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
- People/Characters
- Margaret Mitchell
- Important places
- Georgia, USA; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
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- Danish, English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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