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The chair Margaret Mitchell sat in to write “Gone with the Wind” will go to the highest bidder. The author of the masterpiece left behind a few personal items, and Steve Slotin and Slotin Folk Art ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 3, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Talk about a one-hit wonder. On May 3, 1937, American ...

In 1982 a Russian translation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was issued in the Soviet Union. Judging by reports from that quarter, the book has been an enormous success—with those readers ...

You loved the novel. You've read biographies of its author, collections of her letters, perhaps even the two authorized sequels. And you've sworn, with God as your witness, that you'll never touch ...

ATLANTA - After an extended closure during which it was renovated and reimagined by historians, Atlanta’s Margaret Mitchell House is back open to visitors. Atlanta History Center Midtown, which ...

On Dec. 15, 1939 — 85 years ago Sunday — “Gone With the Wind,” a sweeping tale of romance set against the Civil War and its aftermath in the South and based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ...

Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) embraces Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in a famous scene from the 1939 epic film Gone with the Wind. Full disclosure: The year 1939 is well before my time. So, it was not ...