SUSAN MYRICK OF GONE WITH THE WIND is subtitled An Autobiographical Biography because much of the book is Sue’s own writings.
• Her letters to Peggy Mitchell
• Her diary from 1938 and 1939
• Her newspaper articles and columns from as early as 1928 and as late as 1978
Other sources include:
•The contents of a trunk left at her mother’s after Susan returned home from teaching in Hastings, Nebraska, including:
– Letters from a suitor from World War I were among the papers found in the truck.
– School annuals
– Job applications
– Letters of recommendation
– Work records
– Photographs
– Military information
• Numerous recorded interviews with her sister Allie Myrick Bowden • Memories shared by family members and friends
• Macon Telegraph articles written about Sue by her colleagues
• Georgia College and State University (GN&IC)
• Washington Memorial Library (Macon, GA)
• Emory University Special Collections |