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Nov 19, 2019 · Atwood’s daughter, Eleanor “Jess” Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976 and resides in Brooklyn with her Atwood’s grandchild. With all eyes on the famous author, fans might be wondering...
Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering from dementia. She wrote about Gibson in the poem Dearly and in an accompanying essay on grief and poetry published in The Guardian in 2020. Atwood said about Gibson "He wasn't an egotist, so he wasn't threatened by anything I was doing.
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- Graeme Gibson (1973–2019; his death)
- 1961–present
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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.
- Rachel E. Greenspan
He began dating novelist and poet Margaret Atwood in 1973. They moved to a semi-derelict farm near Alliston, Ontario, which they set about doing up and where according to Atwood they were making "attempts at farming, writing and trying to earn enough to live". Their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born there in 1976.
- Perpetual Motion (1982)
- Shirley Gibson (div. c. 1973)
- Novelist
- University of Western Ontario
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. 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).
Sep 18, 2019 · Graeme Gibson, the Canadian author, conservationist and longtime champion of writers' rights, has died at age 85. Margaret Atwood, Gibson's longtime partner, said in a statement...
Mar 25, 2023 · In 2019, famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood lost her partner of 48 years, fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, to dementia. Gibson was diagnosed with the condition in 2012. His death was not unexpected – but it was a devastating loss for Atwood, a two-time Booker Prize winner and the author of more than 50 books.
