Saturday, September 27, 2008

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"


Margarett Mitchell, was a newspaper reporter of The Atlanta Journal when she fell on a horse in 1920, thus she begun writing Gone With the Wind while recuperating from a broken ankle. John Marsh her husband, brought home historical books from the public library to amuse her while she's bedridden. After she supposedly read all the historical books in the library, he told her, "Peggy, if you want another book, why don't you write your own?" Armed with encyclopedic knowledge of the Civil War and dramatic moments from her own life, she atarted her epic novel on an old Remington typewriter. She considered naming the novel Tote The Weary Load or Tomorrow Is Another Day. Then the heroine Pansy was later on named Scarlett by his boss Latham.
At first Mitchell wrote her novel secretly, and with strong support from her husband, kept her novel under the bed or under the towels. She hid and kept it from those friends who went to visit her place. She wrote the last chapter first, and skipped around from chapter to chapter. Her husband regularly proofread the manuscripts. When her ankle had healed, most of the book was written, and she lost interest in pursuing her literary efforts. Moving on she then later submitted the manuscript to her boss Latham...then the rest was history.
The novel had been made a legendary classical movie and a novel similar success throughout the United States and around the world. It won for Margaret Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It has sold more copies worldwide. She died after being struck by a speeding taxi in New York in August 1949.

The book ends with Scarlett's proclamation: "After all, tomorrow is another day!"


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