“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

About Margaret Mitchell

Author • American

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist best known for her epic Civil War-era novel, "Gone with the Wind." Published in 1936, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and became one of the...