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Allen, Patrick, ed. Margaret Mitchell, Reporter. Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, 2000. 224 pp. $23.95.
Like her famous heroine, Scarlett, author Margaret Mitchell defied convention. Turning her back on debutante balls and society highlife, she went looking for a staff job at the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine in 1922. Her brief career as a journalist ended four years later, but, in her own words, it provided a "liberal education" and the connections she needed for her manuscript of Gone Vith the Vind to reach publication.
Margaret Mitchell, Reporter is a collection of society stories, profiles, reviews, and news written by Mitchell during her years at the Sunday Magazine and as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal. The book was published as part of the centenary celebration of...