Margaret Atwood
Author of: The Penelopiad
Place of birth: Ottawa, Ontario
Place of residence: Toronto, Ontario
 Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario and 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 thirty years of writing, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and several
honorary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, 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).
The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize, and in April 2003, her eleventh novel, the
Man Booker Prize nominated Oryx and Crake was released to great acclaim. Ms. Atwood’s
The Penelopiad, a retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope and
her maids, was released in the fall of 2005 as part of The Myths Series published by Canongate
and a collection of mini-fictions, The Tent, was published by McClelland and Stewart in the
winter of 2006. Her most recent publication is a collection of short stories, Moral Disorder
also published by McClelland and Stewart.
She has an uncanny knack for writing books that anticipate the popular preoccupations of her
public. Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal and worldly problems of universal
concern, Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than thirty languages, including Farsi,
Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
Author's Web site: www.owtoad.com
How to Contact:
Address: c/o McClelland & Stewart, 75 Sherbourne St., 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2P9
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