Margaret mitchell brief biography of mark
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Margaret Mitchell
Born in Atlanta in , Margaret Mitchell defied convention. At her debut at Atlanta’s Georgian Terrace Hotel in , she danced a provocative Parisian street dance that scandalized Atlanta. Vivacious and curious, she loved reading and began writing short stories as a child.
Drawing on her fascination with childhood family stories of the Civil War and the history of her hometown, she would write what became the epic Civil War novel, Gone with The Wind. She wrote at “The Dump,” the Peachtree Street apartment she shared with her husband. Gone With the Wind was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in Mitchell used her extraordinary success to champion causes in her home state. She donated to Atlanta’s Morehouse College, with the funds designated for scholarships for African-American medical students.
Margaret Mitchell died in from injuries sustained after being struck by a cab while crossing Peachtree Street. Today “The Dump” is an historic house museum and cent
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About the Author
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Scholarship Spotlight: Margaret Mitchell
College of William & Mary
Major: English
“My father is a natural born leader…In his years of service in the U.S. Army, he has built up his leadership and has exercised his talent for it, inspiring men and women to courageous tasks as well as serving the citizens of the United States of America and the beneficents of democracy. I admire my father not only for this ability of leadership, but for his careful attention to it and his deliberate use of it.”
This is what Margaret Mitchell had to say when asked about her father, Colonel Mark E. Mitchell, USA (Ret.). Then-Major Mitchell was among the first U.S. Soldiers on the ground after 9/ He advised the Northern Alliance prior to the fall of the Taliban regime and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for “[ensuring] the freedom of one American and the posthumous repatriation of another,” during Operation Enduring Freedom.
Margaret is a recipient of the Freedom Alliance Sc