Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, born November 18 1939 in Ottawa, is a Canadian prizewinning author. Her publications include over 50 books in various genres such as fiction and graphic novels as well as various poems and short stories.

Life Margaret Atwood was born as the second of three children of Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret Killam Atwood. The family spent the first years of her childhood in Ottawa and moved to Toronto in 1946, after her father, an entomologist, took on a job at the University of Toronto. Later, Atwood moved to the USA and Europe and finally came back to Toronto in 1992, where she currently lives. Atwood studied at Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where she graduated with honors in English language and literature in 1961 and later earned her master's degree in English literature at Radcliffe College, Cambridge in 1962. There she met her first husband James Polk. After finishing college, Atwood worked at several universities in Canada, the USA and Australia

Writing Atwood started of writing at the age of five years, she wrote for the literary magazine Clan Call while attending the Leaside High School in Toronto and continued working for magazines during her time at Victoria College. Her works show her great interest interest in political and feminist topics, as her prizewinning novel The Handmaid's Tale, which later became a TV series, demonstrate