Margaret Mitchell had an extraordinary life. Margaret MitchellShe was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 8, 1900. She grew up in an immersed family history, learning and listening to stories of relatives who survived the Civil War in northern Georgia (Stanley and Milne 91). Mitchell heard a lot about the fighting and after the third time after the war she finally believed it. She was about ten when she knew the South had lost the Civil War (Flora, Hardwick, Makethan, and Taylor 307). She began to write as a young girl, spending hours at a time composing stories and plays (Stanley and Milne 91). Mitchell wrote hundreds of books as a child, but her endeavors attempts weren’t limited to novels and stories (“Margaret Mitchell Bio” par. 2). …show more content…
In 1918 she enrolled into Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (“Overview of Margaret Mitchell” par. 3). A year into Smith College, she protested being assigned to a history class with a Negro student (Flora et al. 307). She entered Smith College to study psychiatry, but wasn’t very successful. She barelyIn fact, she barely metmeet the average standard in most of her classes, but her English professor told her she had great potential in writingas a writer. She took her creativity in new directions. She , directeding and acteding in plays she wrote (“Overview of Margaret Mitchell” par. 5). Mitchell only finished her freshmaen year in college because, her mom had passed away, so she went back to Georgia to live with her father and brother (par.