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Z Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) LINKShttp://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/
This site connects you to the Margaret Atwood Society Information Site. Here you will find links to information on Atwood's life and times, her thoughts on writing, featured primary texts, and other informational links on her work and career.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=764
This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Margaret Atwood including a BIOGRAPHY, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and external links.
BIOGRAPHY
A Canadian author, Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario and received her education first at Victoria College and later the University of Toronto, and Harvard College. In 1962, she published her first volume of verse entitled
Double Persephone followed by
The Circle Game (1964), which received the Governor's General Award. In addition, she has published three other compilations of her verse in
Selected Poems (1976),
Selected Poems II (1986), and
Eating Fire:
Selected Poems 1965-
1995). In addition to her work as a published poet, Margaret Atwood is more widely known as a prose fiction writer of short stories, novels, children's literature as well as nonfiction prose including
The Edible Woman (1969),
Surfacing (1972), and
Cat's Eye (1988), among others. Since 1990 when Atwood's 1985 novel
The Handmaid's Tale was made into a Hollywood film, Atwood has enjoyed a broad, popular readership. A writer of literary distinction, Atwood has won several major awards including the Booker Prize for
The Blind Assassin (2000).
SECONDARY SOURCES
Brownley, Martine Watson.
Deferrals of Domain:
Contemporary Women Novelists and the State. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Cooke, Nathalie.
Margaret Atwood:
A Biography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1998.
Grace, Sherrill.
Violent Duality:
A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montréal : Véhicule Press, 1980.
Howells, Coral Ann.
Margaret Atwood. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
McCombs, Judith, Ed.
Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.
Nicholson, Colin, Ed.
Margaret Atwood:
Writing and Subjectivity:
New Critical Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Nischik, Reingard M, Ed.
Margaret Atwood:
Works and Impact. Rochester: Camden House, 2000.
Rigney, Barbara Hill.
Margaret Atwood. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1987.
VanSpanckeren, Kathryn and Jan Garden Castro, Eds.
Margaret Atwood :
Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
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