Margaret Mitchell (November 8, 1900-August 16, 1949) was a famous American writer, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind, her only major publication. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She once received a doctor degree of literature. She was struck by an automobile on her way to see a film with her husband. And after 5 days, she died. ///

It was her life experience and unfortunate love that made her is able to describing a beautiful and sad love story in the Civil War.

When she was a little girl, her grandma often told her about the history of their family and some war stories. Imaging herself lived in the past; she made up many small stories where she was a hero in a war. All of these became materials when she wrote Gone with the Wind many years later.///

At 18 years old, she met a young handsome officer, Clift Henry, who was the Wesley in her heart. Pretty soon, they fell into love. But he lost his life in the First World War, which brought lifelong sad to Mitchell. And I think perhaps she used Starlet’s crazy love to Wesley to lament her first boyfriend.

Her mother’s death made her father lose the courage and motivation of life, as Starlet’s father got mad after his wife died. ///

Like Scarlet, Mitchell was born a rebel girl. She got married with a bad-tempered and cold bully. Not surprisingly, this marriage came to an end shortly afterwards. Even though she cheered up again, she often felt the shadow of failed marriage for the rest of her life.///

In 1944, she got married again. Her husband Marsh was a reporter, who had loved and supported Mitchell for many years. Without Marsh’s encouragement, Mitchell couldn’t finish Gone with the Wind. She spent nearly 10 years on writing the novel. It took her half of a year to check the time and place of historical events in her novel. ///

But because of the publication of Gone with the Wind, her life became a tragedy. For half of a century, the 1000-page novel has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 20,000,000 copies. Overnight success changed her life thoroughly. In one of her letters, she said:” I never imagined a writer’s life would be like this. If I had known before, I would never try to becoming a writer.” Only in the first week, hundreds of readers sent her copies and requested her to sign on the copies and send the copies back to them. She was a woman who loved quiet and simple life, but copyright issues made her is involved in a series of legal affairs. So, it is not hard to understand why from finishing Gone with the Wind to dying in 1949 she had never published any work. ///

Still, Gone with the Wind is enough to establish her unshakable position in the history of world literature.

 

第二篇：英语作文中名人例子

英语作文中名人例子！！首先，先列出SAT写作的几类话题：

1.成功 / 英雄 / 困难类 （被写的经久不衰！）

2.大众观点类：（媒体 / 团体 / 主流）

3.谎言 / 现象本质 / 隐私 （这个我也不懂）

4.动机类 （这个说的优点玄乎）

5.改变 / 科技 / 创新类

6.了解自身类

7.选择类

下面就淘选了些经典例子！！

1.Bill Gates （比尔盖茨）

When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’s No.1 University. However, with size comes power, Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world. 用于有放弃就会有所得、勇气、懂得把握机会类

2.Thomas Edison （托马斯 爱迪生）

In 1879, after more than 1,000 trials and $40,000, Thomas Edison introduced an inexpensive alternative to candles and gaslight: the incandescent lamp. Using carbonized filaments from cotton thread, his light bulb burned for two days. These bulbs were first installed on the steamship Columbia and have been lighting up the world ever since. 用于创造力/科技类、失败是成功之母、努力、成功 / 英雄 / 困难类

3.Mother Teresa （特雷莎修女）

Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters." The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.

用于大众观点类/善良、品性/

4.Diana Spencer（戴安娜王妃）

Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.

不好意思了，戴安娜王妃，我还真不知怎么用你呢..

5.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela （纳尔逊·罗利赫拉赫拉·曼德拉） Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to

antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of

imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa‘s antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

用于英雄、斗争/大众观点类（非暴力）/

6.Beethoven （贝多芬）

Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history.

His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, formes a transition from classical to romantic composition. 用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类

7.George Bush（乔治 布什）

On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.

In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war. The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.

用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类

8.Jimmy Carter（吉米卡特）

President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of America's relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.

In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the country's citizens. The United States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons. 用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类/斗争、

9.Neville Chamberlain（内维尔张伯伦）

In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreement that gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, "peace in our time."

Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact, Germany broke the peace in Europe by invading Poland. A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began in Europe.

不喜欢他，不说了...

10.Raoul Wallenberg （瓦伦堡）

Raoul Wallenberg was a young Swedish aristocrat. In 1944 he left the safety of his country and entered Budapest. Over the next year he outwitted the Nazis and saved as many as 100,000 Jews (he was not himself Jewish) from the death camps. In 1945 he was arrested by the Russians, charged with spying, and imprisoned in a Russian labor camp.

用于道德类/英雄、自救 （Conscience is a more powerful motivation than money,fame and power）

11.George Soros -- （乔治 索斯洛）the financial crocodile Soros, who at one stage after the fall of the Berlin Wall was providing more assistance to Russia than the US government, believes in practising what he preaches.His Open Society Institute has been pivotal in helping eastern European countries develop democratic societies and market economies. Soros has the advantage of an insider's knowledge of the workings of global capitalism, so his criticism is particularly pointed. Last year, the Soros foundation's network spent nearly half a billion dollars on projects in education, public health and promoting democracy, making it one of the world's largest private donors.

用于大众观点类：（媒体 / 团体 / 主流）

12.Paul Revere（保罗 ）

Our perceptive towards Paul Revere just illustrates this point. According to the romantic legend, he, galloping along of the dark from one farm house to another, alerted the people to the coming British. And of course the story emphasized the courage of one man, made him a hero in our history books. However, his heroism required a matrix of others who were already well-prepared to mobilize against the oppressor and he was just one part of a pre-arrange plan. Heroes like Revere have no usefulness apart from a society primed to act.

用于英雄、斗争/勇敢/合作类Cooperation

13.Henry Ford（亨利 福特）

Henry ford,one of the most influential inventors in the history, was always inattentive in school. Once ,he and a friend took a watch apart to probe the principle behind it. Angry and upset, the teacher punished him both to stay after school. their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. but the teacher did not know young ford’s genius,in ten minutes,this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home.It is imagination that invigorated Ford to make a through inquiry about things he did not know.He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire. then he waited to see what would happen. the water boiled and, of course, turned to steam. since the steam had no way to escape, the teapot exploded. the explosion cracked a mirror and broke a

window.Ford’s year of curiosity and tinkering paid off,when he built his imagination of horseless carriage into reality, the history of transportation was changed forever

用于creativity/curiosity/科技类

15.Alexander Graham Bell （亚历山大 格雷厄姆贝尔）

Not realizing the full impact it would have on society, Alexander Graham Bell introduced the first telephone to an amazed audience at America's Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Within a year, Bell had installed 230 phones and established the Bell Telephone Company, which was later transformed into AT&T. In 1997, 643,000,000,000 calls were made by people in the United States alone.

用于英雄/创造、科技/影响力类