Speaking of Gone with the Wind
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/06/30Now, can someone please say this to me?
"Well, I dare say. Really, I wouldn't take you for the type to write a successful book. You don't take your life seriously enough to be a novelist."
Then I'll just scramble together five feet of manuscript and rush them over to my New York publisher...
I would adore a passage like this somewhere in my obituary:
"It was published on this day in 1936, and immediately it was a sensation. Reports abound of people in Atlanta staying up all night to read Mitchell's novel that summer of 1936. It revitalized the publishing industry. The next year, Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize. Her book was made into a movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, and when it had its premiere in Atlanta in 1939, Margaret Mitchell was there at the Loew's Grand Theater with the movie stars."
posted by Margot St. Clair @ 10:28 AM
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