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Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.
May 19, 2021 · Born in Ottawa in 1939, Atwood has been consumed with the specter of a sudden totalitarian takeover, like the one she imagined in her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, since she was a girl....
Apr 2, 2014 · Margaret Atwood is an award-winning Canadian poet, novelist and essayist known for books like 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' 'Cat's Eye' and 'Oryx and Crake,' among an array of other works.
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May 14, 2024 · Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her notable books include The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Testaments (2019).
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- Margaret Atwood began writing at age five and resumed her efforts, more seriously, a decade later. As an adolescent, Atwood divided her time betwee...
- Margaret Atwood won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, for Poetry or Drama for The Circle Game (1966) and for fiction for The Handmaid’s Tale...
- Margaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a dystopian novel set in New England in the near future, which posits a Christian fun...
Apr 10, 2017 · When Margaret Atwood was in her twenties, an aunt shared with her a family legend about a possible seventeenth-century forebear: Mary Webster, whose neighbors, in the Puritan town of Hadley,...
Regarded as one of Canada’s finest living writers, Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, story writer, essayist, and environmental activist. Her books have received critical acclaim in the United States, Europe, and her native Canada, and she has received numerous literary awards, including the…
MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
