John Wiley, Jr.

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 800 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. He also is featured in the PBS American Masters documentary Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel.

For more than 20 years, he has published a quarterly newsletter, now called The Scarlett Letter, for Gone with the Wind fans and collectors.

Published works

• The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
• Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood. Lanham: Taylor Trade, 2011. (Co-authored with Ellen F. Brown.) ISBN 1-58979-567-9
• "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

1. "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.
2. Pauline Bartel. The Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook. Taylor Publishing, 1993.

External links

• 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"