The Bookish Elf

Born: November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States Died:  August 16, 1949 (aged 48) Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia Childhood  & Early Life Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 08th  November 1900. Her family was wealthy and  politically prominent. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, was a suffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896. Margaret Mitchell spent her early childhood on Jackson Hill, east of downtown Atlanta. Her family lived near her maternal grandmother, Annie Stephens. Margaret's relationship with her grandmother would become quarrelsome in later years as she entered adulthood. However, for Margaret, her grandmother was a great source of "eye-witness information" about the Civil War and Reconstruction in Atlanta. At an earl...

Author: Margaret Mitchell Genre: Romance, War, Historic Fiction First Publication: 1936 Language: English Tense: Past Setting Time: 1861-early 1870 (American Civil war to the reconstruction era) Setting Place: Tara (the O’Hara plantation in northern Georgia) & Atlanta. Protagonist: Scarlett O’Hara Major Characters: Scarlett O’Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler, Malanie, Mammy. Narrator: Third-Person, anonymous and omniscient narrator. Narrator have access to the thoughts, emotions and histories of all the characters and have deep knowledge to the circumstances and consequences of the events in the book. Review: I don’t know how to write review of a classic like Gone with the Wind . So I’ll just write my feelings and thoughts after reading this wonderful, shocking, engrossing, emotionally absorbing and at the same time  most tragic, infinitely disturbing and upsetting work of literature ever written. Gone with the Wind is a story of love and loss, peace and war, hope and d...

Early Life : Paulo Coelho Writer Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A son of an engineer and a housewife. He attended Jesuit school and was raised by devout Catholic parents. He determined early on that he wanted to be a writer but was discouraged by his parents, who saw no future in that profession in Brazil. According to Coelho, his parents responded to his artistic aspirations and to his introverted personality by committing him to a mental institution and approving electro-convulsive ("shock") therapy for their son. "I have forgiven," Coelho said. "It happens with love, all the time - when you have this love towards someone else, but you want this person to change, to be like you. And then love can be very destructive." - source Biography.com Paulo Coelho eventually got out of institutional care and enrolled in law school, but dropped out to indulge in the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" of hippie lif...

Born: September 15, 1890 in Torquay, England Died: January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, England English author and playwriter Agatha Christie was the best-selling mystery writer of all time. She wrote ninety-three  books and seventeen plays, including the longest-running play of modern-day theater, The Mousetrap. She is the only mystery writer to have created two important detectives as characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Childhood and Early Life: The daughter of an American father and a British mother, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born at Torquay in the United Kingdom on September 15, 1890. Her family   was comfortable, although not wealthy. She was educated at home, with later studies in Paris, France. Christie taught herself to read at age of five years . She grew up in a family environment full of stories—from the dramatic, suspenseful tales her mother told her at bedtime to her elder sister's frightening creations. She began creating her own fictions, too, with t...