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.
  • BirthName: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  • Nickname: Peggy Atwood
    MA used this form of her name on some juvenile work.

  • Indexed: M. E. Atwood
    She published her first book of poetry under this form of her name.
    “New Wave Canada”. Library and Archives Canada, 21 Mar. 2001.
Black-and-white photo of Margaret Atwood standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone, gesturing with her hands, 5 April 1973.

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.
251

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

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