David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian noted for his writings on American literature and culture.
 He is the author or editor of fifteen books, and an expert on the Civil War era—including figures such as Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and John Brown.
 Reynolds has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Book Award, the John Hope Franklin Prize (Honorable Mention),and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
 He is a regular reviewer for the "New York Times Book Review".
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist.
 One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, "Gone with the Wind", for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936
A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce.
 The film is about the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel writer Margaret Mitchell, who landed to fame when she wrote "Gone with the Wind".
Mary Gabriel is the author of "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution", about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen.
 It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 985 libraries.
 She also wrote "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" — about suffragette Victoria Woodhull —, and" The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone" — about collectors and travelers Cone sisters.
 Her latest book, "Ninth Street Women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler — Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art", is announced for 2018.
 Mary Gabriel was educated in the United States and France, and worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades.
Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator.
 Williams won nearly every major poetry award.
 "Flesh and Blood" won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987.
 "Repair" (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
 "The Singing" won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
 The 2012 film "Tar" related aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.
The Margaret Mitchell House is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia.
 The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell.
 It is located in Midtown, at 990 Peachtree Street.
 Constructed by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a single-family residence in a then-fashionable section of residential Peachtree Street, the building's original address was 806 Peachtree Street.
 The house was known as the Crescent Apartments when Mitchell and her husband lived in Apt.
 1 on the ground floor from 1925 to 1932.
 While living there, Mitchell wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Gone with the Wind".
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".
 It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) in sales.
 The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions.
 "Ben-Hur" remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936).
 The 1959 MGM film adaptation of "Ben-Hur" was seen by tens of millions and won eleven Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales increased and it surpassed "Gone with the Wind".
 It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the first novel ever to receive such praise.
 The success of the novel and its stage and film adaptations also helped it to become a popular cultural icon that was used to promote numerous commercial products.
Harriet Huntington Doerr (April 8, 1910 – November 24, 2002) was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74.
In Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", Twelve Oaks is the plantation home of the Wilkes family in Clayton County, Georgia named for the twelve great oak trees that surround the family mansion in an almost perfect circle.
 Twelve Oaks was described as a "beautiful white-columned house that crowned the hill like a Greek Temple," having true southern charm and whimsy.
 Margaret Mitchell came up with the idea for The Twelve Oaks, and modeled the home after an actual antebellum mansion located in the historic area of Covington, Georgia.
 The home that was portrayed as Margaret Mitchell's Twelve Oaks in the film "Gone with the Wind" has been renovated and is now open as a bed and breakfast and event facility in Covington, Georgia, thirty minutes east of Atlanta.
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by the NBDB (National Book Development Board) and the MCC (Manila Critics' Circle).
 It is the national book award of the Philippines.
 Since 1982 until 2008 the yearly awards was given by the Manila Critics' Circle.
 Then, in 2008, the administration of the award changed hands to the NBDB.
 The award is also distinguished as a major and secular Philippine literary award that is not a manuscripts contest.
 The award categories include:

Question: Which author won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 4, Harriet Doerr or Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell