Written by Margaret Mitchell Summarized by Brian Payton The novel being summarized is titled , written by Margaret Mitchell. It was published in 1936, after it took her seven years to write, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. was the only book Ms. Mitchell wrote and is an American Classic. was a story of men and women living in the south during the war between the states and of the south’s transformation after the was. The novel began in about 1861 at Tara and Twelve Oaks, two southern plantations in Georgia. We were given a glance of the ....