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Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Te...more


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The Handmaid's Tale
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Alias Grace
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 18,382 ratings — published 1996 — 47 editions
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Cat's Eye
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 16,070 ratings — published 1988 — 55 editions
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The Year of the Flood
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 13,402 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions
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The Robber Bride
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 11,991 ratings — published 1993 — 45 editions
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The Edible Woman
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 7,577 ratings — published 1972 — 38 editions
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The Penelopiad
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 7,495 ratings — published 2005 — 43 editions
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Surfacing
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 6,061 ratings — published 1972 — 34 editions
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“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
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