If Great Dead Writers Were on Facebook - 4

I have sent out small tips to everyone who submitted a story to my unofficial challenge from the third installment of these series. If you didn't get your tip (I'd wait a little to see for it to show up, though) please let me know. The challenge was announced here:

I do want to continue with this series, so I'm just going to post three more writers today. At this point, there's no method, theme or chronology to my selection of writers - it's whoever comes to my mind, whatever I've remembered, encountered, or was inspired by and MAIK was capable of producing a decent fake FB post. Here they are:

1. Margaret Mitchell

I've read Gone With the Wind when I was about 16, in high school. Even though the novel was translated into Russian in 1960s and published for the first time in the Soviet Union in 1982, some years before the famous Perestroika that opened the floodgate of the English-language literature for us, the book was incredibly hard to find. Someone loaned a copy to my mom, an avid reader who gave me a good habit of reading all sorts of books, for a week. She was done with it in three days and let me read it after. Those two nights I spent with the book were the most glorious nights of immersing myself in the American Civil War world, and I gulped the book like a movie. I have never had another experience like that in my life and to this day I have not seen the famous movie because neither Vivien Leigh nor Clark Gable were the main characters I pictured in my head. I have nothing against them as actors and I've seen many clips of the movie that has become a part of the American film culture; they just didn't fit the images I had for Scarlett and Rhett and I don't want to ruin that for myself.

While musing about this book and how Mitchell could have crowdsourced ideas for it, I came up with a couple of FB posts. The first one is polling readers about the main plot line of the book after she settled on the brilliant title:

The second post muses on the ending of the novel. Sorry about the typos - sometimes MAIK is just sloppy that way.

I am ashamed to admit that in my many years of living in and visiting Atlanta I have never been to the Margaret Mitchell's museum. I need to make sure next time I'm back there I finally go to her house.

2. F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is my favorite book written by Fitzgerald. I've reread it a couple of times, watched two movies with Robert Redford and Leo DeCaprio, and listened to the audio book. We all know that a lot of things that writers put into their novels come from personal experience and I tried to imagine how Fitzgerald's life could be a source for the infamous hotel party in the book:

3. Ernst Hemingway

My son and I finally took a one-day trip to Key West this summer (it was on my bucket list for a long time). One of the things we did there was visiting Ernst Hemingway's home museum and gardens. I did know that a ship’s captain friend once gave him a white polydactyl (six-toed) cat named Snow White, apparently for good luck. So I've asked MAIK to generate a FB post relating to this:

What I didn't know was that Snow White had many kittens that were also six-toed and Hemingway's estate continues to house them to this day. Currently, out of nearly 50 cats living on the museum's premises about half have six toes. My son took this picture of the rear legs of one of them, while the cat was asleep:

I think this is enough for this installment of IDGWWFB. If you have a suggestion for other writers to be included into these series, drop a name or two in the comments.

Thanks for reading and playing!