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2 days ago · 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.
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). Learn more about Atwood’s life and work.
May 13, 2024 · Atwood and Gibson moved to Alliston, Ontario where they lived on a farm for a number of years. Their daughter Eleanor was born there in 1976. In 1980 the family moved to Toronto.
May 3, 2024 · Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood, (born Nov. 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ont., Can.), Canadian writer. Atwood attended the University of Toronto and Harvard University. In the poetry collection The Circle Game (1964, Governor General’s Award), she celebrated the natural world and condemned materialism.
May 1, 2024 · Since the late 1970s, Atwood has lived with writer Graeme Gibson, the father of her 1976-born daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson. Since 1992 they live in Toronto. Personal life. Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Canada on November 18, 1939 and is the second child of a Protestant family.
May 6, 2024 · Has one daughter: Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson (born 1976) with her companion Graeme Gibson (1934-2019). She was awarded the OC (Officer of the Order of Canada) on December 17, 1973 and the CC (Companion of the Order of Canada) on June 21, 1981 for her services to literature.
10 hours ago · Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees.
