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Cukup Satu Novel untuk Populer Sepanjang Masa

Novel tersebut sangat legendaris dan menjadi salah satu novel terpopuler sepanjang masa. Tepat 76 tahun lalu, 3 Mei 1937, Gone with the Wind memenangkan hadiah Pulitzer. Novel ini berkisah tentang seorang perempuan pemberontak dari Georgia bernama Scarlett O’Hara di zaman Perang Saudara di AS. Ceritanya menarik karena menjalin hubungan cerita antara O’Hara dengan sahabat, keluarga, dan kekasihnya.

Margaret lahir pada 8 November 1900 di Atlanta, Georgia. Ayahnya seorang jaksa sehingga keluarganya termasuk berkecukupan. Saat ia berusia tiga tahun roknya tersangkut di besi pemanggang sampai roknya terbakar. Takut kejadian serupa terulang sang ibu memutuskan Margaret kecil tak lagi memakai rok, tetapi mengenakan celana layaknya anak laki-laki dan mendapat panggilan Jimmy. Margaret tetap menjadi “Jimmy” hingga usia 14 tahun.

Margaret sudah mencintai buku sejak kecil bahkan ia bercita-cita jadi penulis. Sewaktu kecil buku koleksinya ia lapisi dengan cover buatannya sendiri. Ketika remaja ia sudah menulis novel. Lost Laysen, yang ditulis ketika ia berusia 16 tahun, diberikan pada seorang teman lelakinya. Sayang novel itu hilang. Tetapi bisa ditemukan tahun 1994 dan diterbitkan tahun 1996, setelah Margaret meninggal tahun 1949.

Novel lainnya seperti The Big Four dan Ropa Carmagin tak sempat diterbitkan. The Big Fournaskahnya hilang sebelum diajukan ke penerbit, sedangkan Ropa Carmagin ditolak penerbit saat ia mengirimkannya bersama-sama naskah Gone with the Wind.

Pembuatan Gone with the Wind sendiri berlangsung pada pertengahan tahun 1920-an ketika ia harus keluar sebagai wartawan Atlanta Journal karena cedera kaki. Ia tinggal di rumah sambil membaca banyak buku dan menulis kolom untuk Sunday Magazine. Namun suatu kali suaminya John Marsh, menuliskan sebuah pesan pendek di secarik kertas. Ia merasa jemu karena harus sering membantu istrinya mengambilkan buku-buku di perpustakaan sampai buku-bukunya berserakan. “Peggy (nama panggilan Margaret), tak bisakah kamu menulis buku ketimbang membaca ribuan buku ini?” Tak lupa ia pun menghadiahi istrinya sebuah mesin tik.

Tiga tahun kemudian lahirlah Gone with the Wind yang terkenal itu. Novel ini satu-satunya novel yang bisa diterbitkan selama ia masih hidup. Namun itu cukup membuat Margaret Mitchell terkenal hingga sekarang dan meraih banyak penghargaan.

Quite A Novel for Popular All Time

The novel is legendary and became one of the most popular novels of all time. Exactly 76 years ago, May 3, 1937, Gone with the Wind won a Pulitzer Prize. This novel is about a rebellious girl from Georgia named Scarlett O'Hara in the Civil War in the United States. The story is interesting because the relationship between O'Hara stories with friends, family, and her lover.

Margaret was born on November 8, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a prosecutor so that his family included wealthy. When he was three years old her skirt caught in the iron grills up her skirt on fire. Fear of recurrence mother decided little Margaret is no longer wearing a skirt, but wearing pants like boys and Jimmy gets a call. Margaret remains a "Jimmy" until the age of 14 years.

Margaret had loved the books since childhood even he aspired to be a writer. As a small collection of books he seal with a homemade cover. As a teenager he was writing a novel. Lost Laysen, written when he was 16 years old, was given to a male friend. Dear novel was missing. But it can be found in 1994 and published in 1996, after Margaret died in 1949.

Other novels such as The Big Four and Ropa Carmagin not been published. The Big Fournaskahnya lost before it is submitted to a publisher, while publishers rejected Ropa Carmagin when he sends it together manuscript of Gone with the Wind.

Making of Gone with the Wind itself took place in the mid 1920s when he had come out as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal because of a foot injury. He stayed at home and read a lot of books and writes a column for the Sunday Magazine. But once her husband John Marsh, write a short message on a piece of paper. He felt tired, as she often helped her get the books in the library until his books scattered about. "Peggy (Margaret nickname), can not you write a book rather than read thousands of books this?" Do not forget he also presented his wife a typewriter.

Three years later born Gone with the Wind is famous for. The novel is the only novel to be published while he was still alive. But it was enough to make known to the Margaret Mitchell now and won many awards.