35 Beautiful Literary Spots Across America for Every Reader

32. Margaret Mitchell House (Atlanta, GA) – The Birthplace of Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Gone with the Wind from a tiny apartment in this red brick building, now a museum in Midtown Atlanta. The restored space includes the author’s original typewriter, personal artifacts, and insights into her life during the turbulent years of the 1930s. Visitors can walk through the very rooms where Scarlett O’Hara came to life, and learn how Mitchell’s story reshaped Southern literature and cinematic history alike.