6/22/2023 0 Comments Margaret mitchell authorOne million copies were sold in the first six months after its publication in June 1936 and the following year it won the Pulitzer Prize. Gone With the Wind was one of the media phenomena of the century. Under her maiden name of Margaret Mitchell, Peggy Marsh was the most famous citizen of Atlanta as the author of the book which had decisively put the city on the map. She was hit, dragged along under the car and left unconscious with such severe injuries that she died at the Grady Hospital five days later. Peggy Marsh dodged back towards the kerb they had left as the driver desperately steered to his left to try to avoid the couple. They were half way over when a car was suddenly upon them from their right, driven too fast by an off-duty taximan who had had too much to drink. On their way to see the film Canterbury Tales at the Peachtree Arts Theatre, they started across the road. At 8.15 on the mercilessly hot evening of August 11th, 1949, Peggy Mitchell Marsh and her husband John parked their car at the side of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
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