Margaret Mitchell wife, Margaret. Mitchell was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement in 1994 and into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000. Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist who wrote under the name Peggy Mitchell. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, "Gone with the Wind", for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella
Gable and Lombard plane crash while promoting the purchase of defense bonds during World War II. In his review in "The New York Times", Vincent Canby called the film Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" described the film as a "mushy, old-fashioned extravaganza" and added, "Variety" called it "Time Out London" says, "TV Guide" awarded it one out of a possible four stars, calling it Gable and Lombard Gable and Lombard is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.