| Biographical Information Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario and 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 thirty-five years of writing, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and many honorary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002), was published by Cambridge University Press in March 2002. Atwood's dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake, appeared in 2003. The Tent (very short fiction) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her next volume of poetry, The Door, will be published in the fall of 2007. Margaret Atwood has been said to have an uncanny knack for writing books that anticipate the preoccupations of the public. Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal problems and those of universal concern, Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than thirty-five languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson. Together they are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Born: 18 November,
1939. Ottawa, Ontario. |