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The Story Behind Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell had always been physically active, but fragile. When she fell from a horse in 1920, it was the first of a series of mishaps, which ultimately forced her, in 1926, to resign from her job as a newspaper reporter at The Atlanta Journal. She began a long convalescence in the cramped, one bedroom apartment on Crescent Avenue she had nicknamed “The Dump.” Layed up and restless, Margaret devoured the books brought to her from the Atlanta library by her husband John Marsh. “John came home one day with an arm full of books and he said ‘I have broug