Margaret Atwood

A detailed Summary of Margaret Atwood


Novelist, poet, short story writer, critic, teacher, and feminist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Born in Ottawa, Ontario,

Atwood was the second of three children to Carl Edmond and Margaret Dorothy

Killam Atwood. She went on to marry writer, Graeme Gibson, and give birth to a

daughter named Jess. Atwood's religion was that of Immanent Transcendentalist.

During her childhood, she spent her summers in Northern Quebec while her

father fulfilled aspirations of being a forest entomologist. Her time spent in

Northern Quebec during her youth, was a significant influence on the novel

Surfacing which was published in 1972. Upon coming out of what Atwood often

refers to a her "dark period", which to


Atwood published her first volume of poetry, Double Persephone, in 1961.

Toronto (1972-73), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (1985), and

Atwood received her Bachelor's degree from University of Toronto, her

and articles she has written... have contributed to making Atwood a significant

ok place from ages eight to sixteen, she

Master's from Radcliff College of Harvard University, and went into graduate

(1986). She worked as a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in

Margaret Eleanor Atwood has become a prominent figure in the

Her second volume of poetry, The Circle Game, won the 1967 Governor General's

began writing. In high school, her writing began to flourish and she began



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