Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and a pioneer of Canadian women's writing. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended school at Victoria College in Toronto, where she completed her BA. She went on to graduate studies at Radcliffe College for one year, and Harvard University for three years. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist Graeme Gibson; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976.

Bibliography

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Novels

• The Edible Woman (1969)
• Surfacing (1972)
• Lady Oracle (1976)
• Life Before Man (1979)
• Bodily Harm (1981)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985) - winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Cat's Eye (1989)
• The Robber Bride (1993)
• Alias Grace (1996) - winner of the 1996 Giller Prize
• The Blind Assassin (2000) - winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and the 2000 Governor General's Award
• Oryx and Crake (2003)

Poetry collections

• Double Persephone (1961)
• The Circle Game (1964)
• Expeditions (1965)
• Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
• The Animals in That Country (1968)
• The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
• Procedures for Underground (1970)
• Power Politics (1971)
• You Are Happy (1974)
• Selected Poems (1976)
• Two-Headed Poems (1978)
• True Stories (1981)
• Interlunar (1984)
• Morning in the Burned House (1996)
• ' (1998)

Short fiction collections

• Dancing Girls (1977)
• Murder in the Dark (1983)
• Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
• Wilderness Tips (1991)
• Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)

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Anthologies edited

• The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
• ' (1987)
• The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
• The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel)

Other short stories

• Rape Fantasies (1977)
• Unearthing Suite (1983)
• When it Happens (1983)
• Freeforall (1986)
• The Labrador Fiasco (1986)
• Homelanding (1989)
• Daphne and Laura and So Forth (1995)
• Half-Hanged Mary (1995)
• Shopping (1998)

Children's books

• Up in the Tree (1978)
• Anna's Pet (1980)
• For the Birds (book) (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
• Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)

Non-fiction

• Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
• Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing (2002)
• ' (1995)

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