Irish-American Writers
Margaret Mitchell
For her only novel published during her lifetime, the immediately popular Gone With the Wind, a novel about an Irish immigrant family living in the South during the Civil War, Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Her maternal great-grandfather, Phillip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland to Americ and lived on a plantation in Jonesboro, Georgia.
Monday, September 23, 2013
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