Margaret Atwood Biography

Biography:

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18th 1939 in Ottawa Canada. She is an award winning poet, novelist, essayist and an environmental activist. Some of her best known works such as 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'The Tent', 'The Robber Bride' and so on, they have been translated into 30 languages.

She spent her early childhood moving around rural Ontario and Quebec with her family, as her father was a field entomologist.  Her schooling was done at the Victoria College, University of Toronto, B.A., 1961; Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., M.A., 1962; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1962-63, 1965-67. She first experienced the US in 1961, when she went as a graduate student to Harvard University, where she studied American Literature and also learned about 17th century Puritan New England , and realised how little Americans knew about Canada. As her literary reputation grew, Atwood traveled to give readings and lectures and she also won many literary prizes.

Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

All her works:

Novels:

• The Edible Women, 1969
• Surfacing, 1972
• Lady Oracle, 1976
• Life Before Men, 1979
• Bodily Harm, 1981
• Encounters with the Element Man, 1982
• Murder in the Dark, 1983
• Unearthing Suite, 1983
• The Handmaid's Tale, 1985
• Cat's Eyes, 1988 
• The Robber Bride, 1993
• Alias Grace, 1996
• The Blind Assassin, 2000
• Oryx and Crake, 2003
  
• The Penelopiad, 2005
• The Year of the Flood, 2009
• Maddaddam, 2013

Short fiction collections

• Dancing Girls, 1977
• Bluebeard's Egg, 1983
• Wilderness Tips, 1991
• Good Bones, 1992
• Good Bones and Simple Murders, 1994
• The Labrador Fiasco, 1996
• The Tent, 2006
• Moral Disorder, 2006

Poetry collections:

• Double Persephone, 1961
• The Circle Game, 1964   
• Expeditions, 1965
• Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein, 1966
• The Animals in That Country, 1968
• The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 1970
• Procedures for Underground, 1970
• Power Politics, 1971
• You Are Happy, 1974
• Selected Poems, 1976
• Two-Headed Poems, 1978
• True Stories, 1981
• Love Songs of a Terminator, 1983
• Snake Poems, 1983
• Interlunar, 1984
• Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart, 1995
• Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995 (UK,1998)
•  "You Begin." , 1978   
• The Door, 2007

E-books:

• I'm starved for you, 2012
• Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two, 2012
• Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three, 2012

Anthologies Edited:

• The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, 1982
• The Canlit Foodbook, 1987
• The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, 1988
• The Best American Short Stories 1989, 1989
• The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, 1995

Children's books:

• Up in the Tree, 1978
• Anna's Pet, 1980
• For the Birds, 1990
• Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, 1995
• Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, 2003
• Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, 2006
• Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery, 2011

Non-fiction:

• Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, 1972
• Days of the Rebels 1815–1840, 1977
• Second Words: Selected Critical Prose, 1982
• Through the One-Way Mirror, 1986
• Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, 1995
• Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, 2002
• Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004, 2004
• Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005, 2005
• Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, 2008
• In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, 2011

Television scripts:

• The Servant Girl, 1974
• Snowbird, 1981
• Heaven on Earth, 1987

 
These links will lead you to more in depth biographies of Margaret Atwood: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#Works
http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Atwood-Margaret.html 
http://www.margaretatwood.ca/bio.php