John Wiley, Jr.

Who is 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. His collection is featured in the Complete Gone With the Wind Sourcebook.

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 GWTW fans and collectors.