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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