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The prolific Canadian author, Margaret Eleanor Atwood, was born in Ottawa, Canada on November 18, 1939. Her mother worked as a nutritionist and her father was an entomologist. Atwood showed a love for writing at an early age and this love of writing carried into her college career at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She completed her undergraduate studies there and moved on to Radcliffe and finished her Master's Degree a year later.
In 1969, her first novel, The Edible Woman was published. The woman in the novel can not eat but feels as though she herself is being consumed. She taught English during this time and held other academic jobs and held writer residency positions in several places. Margaret Atwood is Canada's most noted novelist and poet, but she writes much more than novels and poems. Since becoming a full-time writer in 1972, she has written short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts, and children's books.
Margaret Atwood is an internationally acclaimed author, but she writes much more than novels and poems. Since becoming a full-time writer in 1972, she has written short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts, and children's books. She is known for her speculative fiction and has created graphic novels as well.
In 1985, The Handmaid's' Tale garnered her recognition and international attention as an author. The dystopian novel explores the world where a certain group of women capable of bearing children, are forced to do so my male Commanders. The United States government has been overtaken and the new society harkens back to Puritanical beliefs and is definitely a theocracy in nature. The Handmaid's Tale has been transformed into an opera as well as a 1990 film. The newest adaptation of the novel is a miniseries on Hulu. Atwood's books tend to be dark and even considered gothic. This contributes to her overwhelming popularity.
Atwood currently lives in Toronto with her partner, Graeme Gibson. The two have a daughter.
(By Biopage writers. Photo credit Larry D. Moore and John Vetterli. Please contact Biopage for inaccuracy)
Time 2017: The 100 Most Influential People
May 18, 2017 7 years agoWriters are the gods of the worlds they create. It's a big job. We make the people and the cities and the trees. If we're very ambitious, we create not just the laws of government, but the laws of nature. No writer has been a god to as many vastly different worlds as Margaret Atwood has, and to my way of thinking, no one has done a better job. Her worlds are harsh and exacting, but also flooded with the brilliant light of her imagination, whether she's writing about the past, the present or a future we had never considered. Atwood is especially timely in 2017 for The Handmaid's Tale, which she published in 1985 about the government's ownership and subjugation of women's bodies, proving just how far ahead of us she is. The novel (now a Hulu series) described what seemed impossible. Today it stands as a warning. How do we know we must fight for our rights? Margaret Atwood showed us what could happen if we don't.. (by Ann Patchett, American author. Photo credit Aaron Vincent Elkaim - AP)
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