Born 1939 in Ottawa, Canada.
"She spent much of her early life in the northern Ontario and Quebec bush country and started writing at the age of five. A graduate from the University of Toronto, where she won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, with a Masters degree from Radcliffe College, she has travelled extensively and held a wide variety of jobs.
"Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic." [publisher's bumpf, The Handmaid's Tale, UK pbk, 1994]
She lives in Toronto, Canada with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter [1994].
Margaret Atwood
("For further information on Atwood"... maintained by Thomas B. Friedman)
Margaret Atwood
(in George Jr magazine... edited by George Myers Jr.)
Margaret Atwood Site
(maintained by Robert Atwood)
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