The program about the author of Gone With the Wind  is scheduled to have its national PBS premiere on American Masters at 9 p.m. April 2, 2012.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/margaret-mitchell-american-rebel/outtakes-is-gone-with-the-wind-literature/2039/

Last year, Wiley, of Midlothian, Va., co-authored the book Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood.

From the cover of the book:

"John Wiley, Jr., owns one of the largest private collections of Gone With the Wind memorabilia in the world, including every American edition of the novel and more than seven hundred foreign editions. He writes a quarterly newsletter, The Scarlett Letter, for GWTW fans and collectors."

He currently lives in Midlothian, VA and is employed by Dominion and is the manager of Employee Communications. His email contact address is tsl_gwtw@hotmail.com

More about John Wiley From Wikipedia

 "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 over 10,000 items of GWTW and Mitchell memorabilia – including every American edition of the novel and more than 700 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.

For more than 20 years, he has published a quarterly newsletter, now called The Scarlett Letter, for GWTW fans and collectors.

Published works:
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 1589795679

"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.



Information from Linda Wiley Collins, BHS Class of 1973, brother of John Wiley.