At the time, Wind had been translated into 16 languages. Then came the film in December 1939, which pushed sales over the two million–copy mark. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and by the end of 1938 had sold more than a million copies. Macmillan sold 176,000 copies of Gone with the Wind when it originally released in 1936.
Throughout May and June, there will be events in Georgia, at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, the Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum, and at the Road to Tara Museum in Jonesboro, Ga. GPB is hosting a Gone with the Wind book page, which will feature book reviews, blurbs, an excerpt, a slideshow of Wind book covers, social media links, and a reading group guide.
Scribner has partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting, which is premiering a documentary on Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel, in June. The publisher has organized events to celebrate the anniversary and the new edition, enlisting Doubleday author Pat Conroy, who will appear on NPR's Talk of the Nation May 4 to discuss what the book has meant in his life. The novel's e-book edition also carries the new (old) jacket art. On May 3, Scribner is publishing an $18 commemorative trade paperback edition of Wind featuring the book's original jacket art, with a first printing of 40,000 copies. Now, 75 years after its original publication, Margaret Mitchell's novel is continuing its run and getting a push that may help it reach new readers. The book has been a tremendous seller for publishers from Macmillan to Warner since it was first released in 1936. Mitchell’s journalism transcends the simple fact gathering of a seasoned journalist to provide a compelling snapshot of life in the Jazz Age South.If backlist is the bread and butter of publishing, Gone with the Wind is a very thick slice of Southern corn bread. From 1922 to 1926, Mitchell completed hundreds of articles, profiles, columns, interviews, sketches, and book reviews, the best of which are now compiled for the first time. Defying convention, the recent debutante shook things up as one of the first female columnists for the South’s largest newspaper. More than a decade before Margaret Mitchell the novelist conceived the immortal fictional world of her now legendary and hotly debated novel, Mitchell the reporter was pounding the real life streets of her native Atlanta in search of the who, what, when, and where for her popular column in the Atlanta Journal. The 64 columns in Margaret Mitchell, Reporter present a never before seen portrait of the lively, far ranging mind and an insightful observer well on the way to her full literary power long before the world even knew her name.
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