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Author Biography

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
The daughter of a forest entomologist, Atwood spent a large part of her childhood in the Canadian wilderness. At the age of six she began to write "poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an ant." At sixteen she found that writing was "suddenly the only thing I wanted to do." More... (© Random House)

Audio Interview

Author Margaret Atwood talks to Don Swaim in 1986 about growing up in the Canadian forests, her novels, her thoughts about religion and human rights, and why she didn't major in journalism in college. http://wiredforbooks.org/margaretatwood/ (Wired for Books)

Web sites about this author

• the Margaret Atwood Information Site
  Life and Times; On Writing; Spring/Summer 2002 Lecture/Reading Schedule; Books by Margaret Atwood; Books About Margaret Atwood; What’s New; Frequently Asked Questions
  http://www.owtoad.com/