“Gone With the Wind,” a novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published on June 30, 1936. This epic historical romance set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction era became one of the most popular books of its time. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and was later adapted into a highly successful film which won multiple Academy Awards. The novel, while celebrated for its narrative and complexity, has also been critically examined for its portrayal of race relations and the glorification of the antebellum South.
