Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood
"Aunt" Margaret Atwood slapping Offred.
Portrays	Aunt Margaret
Date of Birth	November 18th 1939
Birthplace	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
IMDB Page	Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, literary critic, essayist and environmental activist. She has written many novels in her lifetime, including The Handmaid's Tale which is perhaps her best-known work.

Biography

Atwood was born November 18th, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She studied at the University of Toronto and Radcliffe College. She was a lecturer in English literature. Her first published work was the self-published Double Persephone (1961), a poetry collection, followed by another collection, The Circle Game, published in 1964. Atwood has since written and published numerous novels, short stories and poetry collections. Her works have been translated into over thirty languages and have either won or been nominated for many literary awards. Atwood remains one of Canada's most prominent poets and novelists.

Notable Works

Novels

• The Edible Woman (1969; debut novel)
• Life Before Man (1979)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Cat's Eye (1988)
• The Robber Bride (1993)
• Alias Grace (1996)
• The Blind Assassin (2000)
• Hag-Seed (2016)
• The Testaments (2019)

MaddAddam trilogy:

• Oryx and Crake (2003)
• The Year of the Flood (2009)
• MaddAddam (2013)

Poetry Collections

• The Circle Game (1964)

Short Stories

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Links

• Margaret Attwood's personal website.

Trivia

• Atwood had a cameo role in The Handmaid's Tale series, playing an Aunt who slaps Offred when she hesitates in taunting Janine at the Red Center; she appears in the first episode, Offred.