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Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but they divorced in 1973. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980.
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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...
Their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born there in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980. Atwood and Gibson stayed together until his death in 2019. In 2017 Gibson was diagnosed with early signs of vascular dementia.
Sep 18, 2019 · He is survived by his children Matthew and his wife Petrina Andonova, Graeme the Younger and his wife Sumiko Onishi, Jess and her husband Alec Bemis; by grandchildren Maddy, Rowan, and Alder; by the members of his extended family Sarah Gibson, Jessica Gibson, Ruth Atwood and Ralph Siferd, and Harold and Lenore Atwood; and by his partner of ...
Although the two never married, they had a daughter together, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, in 1976. Gibson previously had two sons — Matthew and Grae Gibson — with Shirley Gibson.
Sep 18, 2019 · Along with Atwood, he's survived by, among others, their daughter Eleanor Jess, sons Matt and Grae from his previous marriage to publisher Shirley Gibson, and grandchildren.
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ATWOOD, Margaret (Eleanor) 1939-PERSONAL: Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; daughter of Carl Edmund (an entomologist) and Margaret Dorothy (Killam) Atwood; married Graeme Gibson (a writer); children: Jess (daughter).
