A first edition of “Gone With the Wind” from 1936 is signed by author Margaret Mitchell to Atlanta native and history teacher Meta Barker, who lived until 1978. It’s valued at $1,500 to ...

A first edition of “Gone with the Wind” from 1936 is signed by author Margaret Mitchell to Atlanta native and history teacher Meta Barker, who lived until 1978. It’s valued at $1,500 to $2,500.

“Gone With the Wind” was published in June 1936 and became a huge seller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937. Producer David O. Selznick paid Mitchell $50,000 for the movie rights ...

"Gone with the Wind," an award-winning book that was adapted into a legendary Hollywood film, was published on this day in history, June 30, 1936.

In a scene that didn’t make the final cut of 1939’s Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler sits alone in his bedroom, drinking and fondling a gun. A knock at his door interrupts him from his dark ...

A first edition of “Gone with the Wind” from 1936 is signed by author Margaret Mitchell to Atlanta native and history teacher Meta Barker, who lived until 1978. It’s valued at $1,500 to $2,500.

Gone with the Wind though restrictive in its focus is not a racist book, championing racial superiority. Thomas Dixon Jr’s The Clansman: A Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) most certainly is.