Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The novel is one of the most popular of all time, and an American film adaptation of the same name released in 1939 became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards. Mitchells work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett OHara and her travails with friends, fami
