Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for seventy-five years. Various Mitchell biographies and several compilations of her letters tell part of the story, but, until now, no single source has revealed the full saga. This entertaining account of a literary and pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell's book was developed, marketed, distributed, and otherwise groomed for success in the 1930s—and the savvy measures taken since then by the author, her publisher, and her estate to ensure its longevity.
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for seventy-five years. Various Mitchell biographies and several compilations of her letters tell part of the story, but, until now, no single source has revealed the full saga. This entertaining account of a literary and pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell's book was developed, marketed, distributed, and otherwise groomed for success in the 1930s—and the savvy measures taken since then by the author, her publisher, and her estate to ensure its longevity.
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood

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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for seventy-five years. Various Mitchell biographies and several compilations of her letters tell part of the story, but, until now, no single source has revealed the full saga. This entertaining account of a literary and pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell's book was developed, marketed, distributed, and otherwise groomed for success in the 1930s—and the savvy measures taken since then by the author, her publisher, and her estate to ensure its longevity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493059294
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 01/02/2023
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 466
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ellen F. Brown is a rare book dealer and freelance writer specializing in stories about antiquarian books and the rare book industry. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

John Wiley, Jr. owns one of the largest collections of Gone With the Wind memorabilia in private hands, including every American edition of the novel and over 600 foreign editions. He writes a quarterly newsletter, The Scarlett Letter, for GWTW fans and collectors.

Table of Contents

Cast of Characters ix

Note About the Second Edition xi

Introduction 1

1 This Woman Has Something 5

1900-August 1935

2 A Manuscript of the Old South 27

August 1935-January 1936

3 In Cold Type 41

February-March 1936

4 A Book with Definite Possibilities 57

April-May 1936

5 Fanning the Flame 75

May-June 1936

6 The Making of a Colossal Upper-case Success 91

June-July 1936

7 That Book About the Wind 105

August-October 1936

8 The Reluctant Celebrity 119

Fall 1936

9 Gone With the Wind, Inc. 137

December 1936-April 1937

10 Defending Scarlett's Honor 153

Spring-December 1931

11 From Greenland's Icy Mountains to India's Coral Strand 175

1938

12 Me and My Poor Scarlett 189

1939

13 Toting the Weary Load 209

December 1939-1942

14 Reconstruction 231

1943-Summer 1947

15 A Bolt from the Blue 249

Fall 1947-August 1949

16 Inherit the Wind 269

August 1949-1959

17 Minding Scarlett's Business 287

1960-May 1983

18 Tomorrow Is Another Book 303

June 1983-2008

19 The Winds of Change 323

2009-2014

20 Resonance and Reckoning 339

2015-2022

Acknowledgments 353

Notes 357

Bibliography 391

Index 401

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