![]() ![]() Why? The book’s copyright was about to expire. In 1987, shortly after the novel’s 50th anniversary, Mitchell’s estate announced that it was commissioning a sequel to Gone With the Wind. ![]() Mitchell died in 1949 at age 49, having never published another novel. ![]() While the novel ends ambiguously (Rhett Butler up and leaves poor Scarlett O’Hara, and she doesn’t quite know what to do next), Mitchell felt her 1,037-page novel told a complete story, and despite major interest from her publisher and the public, she had no interest in writing a follow-up. It won author Margaret Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize, has sold more than 30 million copies (and it’s still in print), and was adapted into a film in 1939 that became one of the most commercially successful movies ever. Gone With the Wind, published in 1936, is one of the most successful and enduring books of all time. What happens when the fans of a hugely popular novel and every book publisher in the world demand a sequel that the author doesn’t want to write? The author’s family waits 50 years, then hires someone to follow up Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. The following is an article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader ![]()
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