Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, GA in 1900, and published only one novel before she died at the age of 49: Gone With the Wind. It won the National Book Award for fiction as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and it was soon adapted into Hollywood's best-loved classics. In this episode of Call Me Ishmael, Lee Harris—novelist, critic, and a Southerner whose ancestors straddled the war's great divide— talks about the role literature played, and continues to play, in understanding the Civil War, about how the war and the novels that depicted it shaped American history, and about what happened to those people who had found themselves on the wrong side of that history after losing everything.