Successful First Novels

While she had written smaller works prior, Margaret Mitchell began writing what would become her first published novel, Gone With the Wind, in 1926 while recovering from an ankle injury. A year after it was published in 1936, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book that would go on to become one of the most famous romance films of all time (earning 10 Academy Awards). Gone With the Wind is the only novel by Margaret published during her lifetime.