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A young Margaret Mitchell. Due to a childhood accident in which Margaret's dress caught on fire on an iron grate, her mother began dressing her in boys' pants and nicknamed her "Jimmy," after the Jimmy Swinnerton comic strip character, and Margaret referred to herself as a boy named Jimmy until she was 14. (from the Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta, Georgia)

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Margaret Mitchell, in full Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, (born November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died August 16, 1949, Atlanta), American author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the Wind (1936). The novel earned Mitchell a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and it was the source of the classic film of the same name released in 1939. Mitchell grew up in a family of storytellers who regaled her with firsthand accounts of their experiences during the American Civil…

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