Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in over 40 countries, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, and her novels also include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
Books
- Bluebeard's Egg and other stories 1983
- The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition 2010
- Backpack Literature -- Sixth edition 2020
- Moral Disorder and Other Stories 2006
- Life Before Man 1979
- Wilderness Tips 1991
- Dancing girls and other stories 1977
- Literature, A Portable Anthology -- Fifth edition 2021
- The Norton introduction to literature--ninth edition 2005
- Literature--reading fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay 1986
- Negotiating with the dead 2002
- Erotica 1990
- Literature, a portable anthology -- Second edition 2009
- The journals of Susanna Moodie 1969
- Stone mattress 2014
- The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Eleventh Edition 2016
- The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold 1994
- The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature -- Sixth Edition 1999
- Survival 1972
- Good Bones 1992
- Bodily Harm 1981
- The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition 2015
- Adventures in English Literature -- Athena Edition 1996