While on a trip to Atlanta, Georgia, to find new Southern writers, Harold Latham of Macmillar. Publishing questioned the unknown Margaret Mitchell about a book she had reportedly written. She resolutely denied any knowledge of a book. But before Latham left town, Mitchell showed up at his hotel with the manuscript and said, "Take it before I change my mind." What Latham read became one of the most successful novels in history, published on June 30, 1936 Gone with the Wind