Margaret Mitchell, a journalist nad houswife from Atlanta started to write a book in 1926. She finished it 10 years later.
It was called Gone with the Wind. It became the most popular American novel of all time.
It is a long,
romantic novel. It's about a beautiful young woman, Scarlet O' Hara and twelve years in her life just before, during and after the American Civil War.
Scarlett marries Rhett Butler, the tall, dark and handsome hero, but she doesn't love him. All the time she loves someone else. But the man she loves is married.