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Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

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I had an image of Margaret Mitcell as a very cool person. But reading this book, I was greatly surprised to find that she was an alcoholic,a flirt(as stated explicitly in the book) and had two marriages and seemed to be very non-traditional. She reformed herself after becoming famous with GWTW, but she couldn't cope up with the recognition and the crowd always surrounding her. I admire her second husband for inspiring her to write a novel which she had no idea of publishing since she always felt she was only an amateur because of not having completed her study in the university. Yes, she is a complex character and it seems that she was always in two minds. Gone With The Wind is the novel which I have liked the most.

This book reveals a great deal of information that relates Margaret Mitchell, the woman, to "Gone With the Wind", the book. Sadly, this could have been a wonderful book but the author's lack of sympathy with the subject is a noticable. The author's disrespect for a courageous and talented woman only made me think less of the author and more of Peggy Marsh. Perhaps if there had been a better editor......

This is the story of the author of Gone With The Wind and the story surrounding her famous novel. The personality and life experiences of Margaret Mitchell are woven into Gone With Wind. To read either Road To Tara or Gone With The Wind necessitates reading the other.
Anne Edwards is the author of the biography of Vivien Leigh and was to write the sequel to Gone With The Wind which was never published.

Much of Gone With the Wind was taken from Margaret Mitchell's own life experiences.