Margaret mitchell died in a car accident, but i want you to consider an alternate version of events. In atlanta, she was beloved a little pixy of a woman who stood for everything white southerners of that generation ed to stand for,. beauty, wit, nastalgia. The story goes, she read through all the books in the atlanta library and her husband said, why don't you write your own? And so he brings home a remington typewriter which is where Margaret ended up writing.