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 GWTW 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[citation needed]. 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 GWTW fans and collectors.
Published works
The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind (to be published in September)
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
- ^ "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.
External links
- 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"