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The Handmaid's Tale: Biography: Margaret Atwood
A novelist, poet and critic, Margaret Atwood is one of North America's leading contemporary writers.
Margaret atwood biography handmaids tale sparknotes
She is the author of more than thirty books and her work has been published in more than twenty-five countries.
Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada. Her father was a forest entomologist and her mother was a graduate in Home Economics from the University of Toronto.
Atwood grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. She began writing poems, plays and an unfinished novel at the age of six.
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By the time she was sixteen, she decided that writing was the only thing she wanted to do.
In 1957 Atwood became a student of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. In 1961, after graduation, she studied English at Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and was awarded an M.A.
in 1962. She spent a year working on doctoral studies at Harvard before taking up a position as an instructor of English litera