Which novel by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937?

The novel by Margaret Mitchell that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 was Gone with the Wind.

Published in 1936, the sweeping historical novel is set largely in Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. It centers on Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner, and follows her determined efforts to survive social upheaval, war, poverty, and the collapse of the antebellum order.

At the time, the Pulitzer category was officially called the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel; it was renamed Fiction in 1947. The 1937 award therefore recognizes the novel published the previous year. Mitchell's book became an enormous commercial success and remains one of the best-known American novels of the twentieth century.

A common mix-up is Scarlett, a 1991 sequel written by Alexandra Ripley, not Mitchell. The story was also adapted into the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, which won multiple Academy Awards. Mitchell herself published only one novel during her lifetime.