Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters 1936–1949 by Richard Harwell - Second Printing 1976

Private letters behind a publishing phenomenon

Good Condition for age – visible dust-jacket tears with heavy edge and corner wear, pages are excellent.

Edited by Richard Harwell, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind Letters 1936–1949 gathers hundreds of letters written during the extraordinary years that followed publication of her only novel. The correspondence traces how Gone with the Wind grew from a literary sensation into an international cultural phenomenon and major film, transforming Mitchell’s private life along with the worlds of publishing and moviemaking. In letters to readers, friends, publishers and others drawn into the novel’s success, Mitchell responds with intelligence, humour and candour to fame, adaptation, historical questions and the relentless demands placed upon her. This revealing collection offers a vivid portrait of the writer behind Scarlett O’Hara and a first-hand record of the burdens as well as the triumphs created by unprecedented success.