Margaret Atwood

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Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, non-fiction writer
Born: November 18, 1939

factoid #1
Dad was a zoologist and a forest entomologist; as a result, Atwood spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec. Cool, huh?

known for
Novels with predominantly strong female protagonists. Her work is often fable-like and open ended, and explores the themes of urban life and of sexual politics. Stylistically diverse. Bit of a potty mouth.

books
Poetry
The Circle Game
The Animals in That Country
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Procedures for Underground
Power Politics
You Are Happy
Selected Poems
Two-Headed Poems
True Stories
Interlunar
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986
Selected Poems 1966-1984
Margaret Atwood Poems
Morning in the Burned House
Eating Fire; Selected Poems, 1965-1995

Short Fiction
Dancing Girls
Murder in the Dark
Bluebeard's Egg
Wilderness Tips
Good Bones; Coach House Press

Novels
The Edible Woman
Surfacing; McClelland & Stewart
Lady Oracle
Life Before Man
Bodily Harm
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
The Robber Bride
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Oryx and Crake
Penelopiad

Children's Books
Up In The Tree
Anna's Pet
For The Birds
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut

Non-Fiction
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing