Margaret Atwood (1939- )

• novelist, poet, critic
• born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario
• family moved to Toronto when she was seven, but the family spent several months a year in the northern bush of Ontario and Quebec
• educated at the University of Toronto, Radcliffe College, and Harvard University
• has lived in Boston, Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, and the south of France
• currently lives in Toronto
• married to Graeme Gibson, daughter Jess
• her books have been translated into more than twenty languages
• Novels:
  • The Edible Woman (1972)
  • Surfacing (1972)
  • Lady Oracle (1976)
  • Life Before Man (1979)
  • Bodily Harm (1981)
  • The Handmaid's Tale (1985) received the Governor General's Award
  • Cat's Eye (1988)
  • The Robber Bride (1993)
• Short Fiction:
  • Dancing Girls (1977)
  • Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
  • Murder in the Dark (1983)
  • Wilderness Tips (1991)
  • Good Bones (1992)
• Poetry:
  • Selected Poems (1965)
  • The Circle Game (1966) received the Governor General's Award
  • The Animals in that Country (1968)
  • The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
  • Procedures for Underground (1970)
  • Power Politics (1971)
  • You Are Happy (1974)
  • Two-Headed Poems (1978)
  • True Stories (1981)
  • Murder in the Dark (1983) also contains short fiction
  • Interlunar (1984)
  • Selected Poems II (1986)
• Criticism:
  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
  • Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1984)
  • Strange things : factions of the malevolent North in Canadian literature (1995)
• Children's Books:
  • Up in a tree (1978)
• as Editor:
  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1982)
  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories (1995)
• Further Reading
  • The Art of Margaret Atwood (1981) edited by A.E. Davidson and C.N. Davidson
  • Violent Duality (1980) by S. Grace
  • Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, System (1983) edited by S. Grace and L. Weir
  • Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms (1988) edited by J. Castro and K. Van Spanckeren
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