On my Kindle, I'm reading a book by Ellen Brown called Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
It's interesting how different the process was back then (in the mid '30s) to get a book published. Mitchell didn't have it finished, the chapters were all out of sync, she didn't even have a first chapter, and what she had written was only a first draft. A friend recommened the incomplete ms. to Macmillan publishers (where the friend worked), and all Mitchell sent were a few chapters that were out of order with a very brief storyline. And she was an unknown writer at the time. I'm sure the friend helping her a lot to do with it, but still....
I'm about 20% through the book and at the point in time where Gone With The Wind has just gone to press and Mitchell is exhausted from the all-nighters of trying to get the book in shape within seven months' time. Her husband and friends helped her with editing and retyping the 450,000 word novel.
