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.
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.
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