Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

This book is awesome for anyone that wants to understand the makings of Gone With The Wind (the book)

This Margaret Mitchell biography is very good. Ms. Edwards knows her subject and manages to supply the reader with interesting details, both on Margaret Mitchell herself and on the writing of her only novel as well as the making of the film and Ms. Mitchell's involvement in that project.The book is easily read and written in a very entertaining and descriptive style, making the reader feel as if he or she were really there.An excellent place to begin a study of the enigma that was Margaret Mitchell.

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.

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