Margaret Atwood

Well before the end of the twentieth century MA had become one of Canada's leading writers in multiple genres. She now writes for a global audience who read her more than forty novels , poetry,short stories, criticism, lectures, editing of anthologies, and experiments with new, mixed, and digital genres.

Milestones

18 November 1939

MA was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the second of three children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Fall 1985

MA published in Canada her science-fictional dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, set in Gilead, a religious fundamentalist republic imagined as existing in the future USA, coinciding more or less with New England.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

Biography

Birth and Family

18 November 1939

MA was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the second of three children.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
251