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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 Tent (mini-fic...more

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Looking back on Earth Day, 2010: A year ago, the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill had not yet happened; nor had the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the subsequent nuclear leakage. The floods in Australia had not yet occurred. It was felt, then, that the ozone-layer hole over the Arctic was on the way to being fixed; maybe it is, in the long run, but meanwhile, in the sprin...

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	The Handmaid's Tale 3.96 avg rating — 159,301 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 39,620 ratings — published 2003 — 60 editions	My rating:
	The Blind Assassin 3.87 avg rating — 38,699 ratings — published 2000 — 55 editions	My rating:
	Alias Grace 3.89 avg rating — 21,055 ratings — published 1996 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Cat's Eye 3.85 avg rating — 17,904 ratings — published 1988 — 59 editions	My rating:
	The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy #2) 3.92 avg rating — 16,222 ratings — published 2009 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The Robber Bride 3.75 avg rating — 13,209 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Edible Woman 3.60 avg rating — 8,482 ratings — published 1969 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The Penelopiad 3.54 avg rating — 8,440 ratings — published 2005 — 45 editions	My rating:
	Surfacing 3.41 avg rating — 6,771 ratings — published 1972 — 36 editions	My rating:

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“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

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