John Wiley Jr., is an expert on Gone With the Wind and the life of its author, Margaret Mitchell. Over the past 40 years, he has assembled a collection of more than 10,000 items of Gone With the Wind and Mitchell memorabilia – including every American edition of the novel and more than 1,000 foreign editions.[1] His collection is featured in the Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook.[2]
Wiley has published numerous articles on Mitchell and Gone With the Wind and has been interviewed by Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Times. In 1997, he served as artistic adviser for the U.S. Postal Service's 32-cent Gone With the Wind postage stamp in its 1930s Celebrate the Century series[3] He also is featured in the PBS American Masters documentary Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel.
In February 2011, Wiley co-authored the book Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood with Ellen F. Brown. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most popular and controversial novels in history of publishing.[4]
For more than 30 years, he has published a quarterly newsletter, now called The Scarlett Letter, for Gone with the Wind fans and collectors.
Published works edit
- The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
- Brown, Ellen F.; Wiley Jr., John (February 2011). Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood. Lanham: Taylor Trade. ISBN 978-1-58979-567-9. OCLC 1034978372.
- "Forever Scarlett: Vivien Leigh by Emilio Grau Sala," Other People's Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2011.
- "Gone With the Wind: Atlanta's Film, Atlanta's Night". Dublin, Ga.: Gone With the Wind Collector's Newsletter, 1990.
- Harwell, Richard. "An Enduring Legacy: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind". edited by John Wiley Jr., Dublin, Ga.: Gone With the Wind Collector's Newsletter, 1991.
- "Gone With the Wind Memorabilia", Collecting, January 1996.
- "Everything Scarlett", Biblio, September 1997.
- "70 Years Later, Scarlett Fever Still Raging Around the World", Southeastern Antiquing & Collecting, September 2006.
- "Gone With the Wind Much More than Film", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 13, 2009.
References edit
- ^ "How I Got Started: John Wiley, Jr.," Fine Books & Collections, July/August 2007; John Steils. "Making the Most of Moonlight Memorabilia," The Barksdale Buzz, November 22, 1997.
- ^ Pauline Bartel. The Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook. Taylor Publishing, 1993.
- ^ Davis, Anita Price (2014-01-10). The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia. McFarland. p. 209. ISBN 9780786492459.
- ^ Bird, Sarah (17 June 2011). "Shelf Awareness". www.shelf-awareness.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
External links edit
- The Scarlett Letter
- Cynthia McMullen, "Scarlett Fever," Richmond Times Dispatch, December 9, 2007.
- "Collection 10,000 Items Strong," Richmond Times Dispatch, December 9, 2007.
- "How I Got Started: John Wiley, Jr.," Fine Books & Collections, July/August 2007.
- John Steils. "Making the Most of Moonlight Memorabilia", The Barksdale Buzz, November 22, 1997.
- Interview with Wiley and Brown on "New Books in Biography"