An item from a "this-date-in-history" column caught our eye this week. On May 3, 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Gone With the Wind. And now, 75 years later, her work still stands as one of the great pieces of American literature of all times. There is a copy of this book in the Bullis Collection. And the collection also contains a significant number of non-fiction books on the War Between the States that Margaret Mitchell skillfully fictionalized.
So ... if you are interested in learning more about the Civil War, we invite you to stop by the Bullis Room and look at some of these books. And we also invite you to read (or reread) two of our 2011 posts in which we recorded John Lapham Bullis's eyewitness accounts as a young recruit, taken from his letters home to his family. (See our April 8, 2011 and April 15, 2011 posts.)
We hope you find one or more of these sources of Civil War history interesting and informative.
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Fascinating that you have this book in your collection.
You may be interested to know that southern author and historian Peter Bonner has written a book about "Gone With The Wind" - "Lost In Yesterday" - and the true events and personal stories that Margaret Mitchell drew on to write her famous book. He offers the only "Gone Wth The Wind" tour in the world there in Atlanta and is considered an expert on the subject.
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