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One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for $50,000. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story, the author washed her hands of involvement with the film. However, driven by a maternal interest in her literary firstborn and compelled by her Southern manners to answer every fan letter she received, Mitchell was unable to stay aloof for long.

In this collection of her letters about the 1939 motion picture classic, readers have a front-row seat as the author watches the Dream Factory at work. Her ability to weave a story, so evident in Gone With the Wind, makes for delightful reading in her correspondence with a who’s who of Hollywood, from producer David O. Selznick, director George Cukor and screenwriter Sidney Howard, to cast members Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel.

As Gone With the Wind marks its 75th anniversary on the silver screen, The Scarlett Letters, edited by Mitchell historian John Wiley, Jr., offers a fresh look at the most popular motion picture of all time through the eyes of the woman who gave birth to Scarlett.

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“John Wiley, Jr., is the world’s greatest authority on Margaret Mitchell. If you think Scarlett O’Hara is fascinating, wait until you meet Margaret Mitchell in these pages — she is laugh-out-loud funny, honest to a fault, often exasperating, and a brilliant judge of character.”

— Pamela Roberts, producer/director of Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel for PBS