who is the latter person?
An American white supremacist, successively a politician, lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
Thomas Dixon Jr.
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American white supremacist, successively a politician, lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. 
where does the movie gone with the wind take place California, mostly in Los Angeles County or neighboring Ventura County is it a novel adaptation? Yes, adapted from the novel by Margaret Mitchell mention a few of her other works? "Gone with the Wind" and "Lost Laysen" is "the big four" also her work? Yes,  a 400-page novel about girls was she a reporter too? Yes, she was a journalist for whom did she report? "The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine" who were her influencers? Her grandmother did any author or any notable personality influence on her? William Shakespeare, Thomas Dixon
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Thomas Dixon Jr. [SEP] Introduction
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American white supremacist, successively a politician, lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Referred to as a "professional racist", Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, "The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900" (1902) and "" (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for blacks, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted "The Clansman" for the screen in "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), which inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.