![]() ![]() Career 1960s Ītwood's first book of poetry, Double Persephone, was published as a pamphlet by Hawkshead Press in 1961, and won the E. Īlthough she is an accomplished writer, Atwood says that she is "a terrible speller" who writes both on a computer and by hand. He said to our daughter towards the end of his life, 'Your mum would still have been a writer if she hadn't met me, but she wouldn't have had as much fun'". Atwood said about Gibson "He wasn't an egotist, so he wasn't threatened by anything I was doing. She wrote about Gibson in the poem Dearly and in an accompanying essay on grief and poetry published in The Guardian in 2020. Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering from dementia. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. Ītwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but divorced in 1973. So take your pick." Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985). She has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster) the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor: "On Monday, my grandmother would say Mary was her ancestor, and on Wednesday she would say she wasn't. ![]() Personal life Ītwood has a sister, Ruth Atwood, born in 1951, and a brother who is two years older, Harold Leslie Atwood. She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued doctoral studies for two years, but did not finish her dissertation, The English Metaphysical Romance. In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French. Her professors included Jay Macpherson and Northrop Frye. In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, where she published poems and articles in Acta Victoriana, the college literary journal, and participated in the sophomore theatrical tradition of The Bob Comedy Revue. Ītwood realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16. Atwood has written about her experiences in Girl Guides in several of her publications. Īs a child, she also participated in the Brownie program of Girl Guides of Canada. Atwood began writing plays and poems at the age of 6. She attended Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957. She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books. She did not attend school full-time until she was 12 years old. Because of her father's research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of northern Quebec, and traveling back and forth between Ottawa, Sault Ste. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.Ītwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the second of three children of Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist, and Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. ![]() Ītwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.Ītwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. ![]() Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. ![]()
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