《飘》是作者耗费十年精力创作的*一部小说，作者凭借此作获普利策奖。  小说以美国南北战争为背景，以故事主人公美丽、聪慧的南方姑娘斯嘉的生活和爱情为主线，描绘了斯嘉如何从一个农场庄园的娇小姐，经历战火的洗礼，成长为坚强、独立的新女性，展现了一幅19世纪六七十年代美国南北战争时期和战后重建时期美国南部社会动荡的历史画卷。(Gone with the Wind is a novel that the author spent ten years working on, and the author won the Pulitzer Prize. The novel is set in the American Civil War and uses the hero of the beautiful and intelligent girl South Scarlett's life and love as the main line. It depicts how Scarlet grows into a strong and independent female from a farm manor young lady after the baptism of war and shows a historical picture of the social unrest of the southern United States during the American Civil War and the reconstruction of the post-war period of the 60s and 70s nineteenth Century.)