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  2. Sep 18, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Graeme Gibson, a Canadian novelist and conservationist and the longtime partner of Margaret Atwood, died Wednesday at age 85. Gibson’s death was announced Wednesday by Doubleday, which has published both Gibson and Atwood. He had been suffering from dementia.

  3. Sep 18, 2019 · G raeme Gibson, the Canadian author of books including Five Legs and Perpetual Motion and longtime partner of author Margaret Atwood, has died. He was 85.

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    • Atwood Was Married to Husband Jim Polk For Five Years
    • Gibson Died in September, 2019 Due to Complications with Dementia
    • She & Gibson Gave Up Farming When Their Daughter Was Born
    • Atwood Recently Released A Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

    Atwood was married to her first husband, Jim Polk, for five years; the two were together between 1968 and 1973. According to a profile by the Guardian, Polk was an American writer she had met at Harvard, and the two tied the know after “five years of equivocation.” Atwood described her Montreal wedding as having a “faintly shambolic and surreal qua...

    Gibson died at the age of 85 on September 18, 2019 after suffering from dementia. Atwood said in a statementthat her family was “devastated by the loss of Graeme, our beloved father, grandfather, and spouse, but we are happy that he achieved the kind of swift exit he wanted and avoided the decline into further dementia that he feared.” According to...

    In May 1976, Atwood and Gibson had a daughter, whom they named Eleanor “Jess” Atwood Gibson. After welcoming their daughter to the world, they decided to give up the farming life, to spare Jess from “spend[ing] about four hours a day on the school bus,” according to the Guardian. Atwood added, “It was a shame: but on the other hand farming was a he...

    Atwood recently released a sequel to her critically-acclaimed novel The Handmaid’s Tale; the sequel, titled The Testaments,was published on September 10, 2019. She announced in November, 2018 that fans and readers of her original novel were her inspiration for the sequel, as well as “the world we’ve been living in.” The book split the prestigious B...

  4. Sep 18, 2019 · The Associated Press. NEW YORK (AP) — Graeme Gibson, a Canadian novelist and conservationist and the longtime partner of Margaret Atwood, died Wednesday at age 85. Gibson’s death was...

  5. By Kayleigh Dray. 5 years ago. Celebrated author Graeme Gibson, who was Margaret Atwood ’s partner for four decades, sadly passed away on 18 September during the press tour for The Testaments ...

  6. Sep 18, 2019 · Entertainment. Writer and conservationist Graeme Gibson, partner of Margaret Atwood, dead at 85. 'We're devastated by the loss,' says Atwood. CBC News · Posted: Sep 18, 2019 8:25 AM PDT |...

  7. Sep 19, 2019 · Graeme Gibson was a Canadian author and conservationist who was the longtime partner of author Margaret Atwood. Gibson wrote novels including “Five Legs” (1969) and “Perpetual Motion” (1982).

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