Which 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Scarlett O'Hara during the American Civil War?

Gone with the Wind is the 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows Scarlett O'Hara during the American Civil War.

Margaret Mitchell’s novel was published in 1936 and is set mainly in Georgia before, during, and after the Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner, struggles to preserve her family’s home, Tara, while the war destroys the social and economic system around her.

The book became one of the best-selling American novels of the twentieth century and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Its popular legacy is closely linked to the 1939 film adaptation starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.

The novel is also widely discussed for its romanticized depiction of slavery and the antebellum South. That historical framing is an important distinction between the book’s cultural popularity and modern assessments of its racial politics.