Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer, activist, educator, and inventor. She has long been considered "one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world."
Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1939, Atwood attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto as well as Radcliffe College at Harvard University, where she earned a master's degree before pursuing a doctorate in literary studies, although she did not complete her dissertation and left the program after two years. After the release of her first novel, The Edible Woman, in 1969, Atwood taught at York University while continuing to write and publish works of poetry and fiction. In 1985, she published The Handmaid's Tale, ...
