Gone with the Wind (novel) is a novel by an American author.
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell , first published in 1936 . Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937 . Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime . Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell ( November 8 , 1900 -- August 16 , 1949 ) was an American author and journalist .