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. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, 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), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
Series
Books
The Door
2007
Wilderness Tips
1991
Life Before Man
1979
The Penelopiad
The Play
2007
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
2011
The Edible Woman ; Surfacing ; Lady Oracle
1987
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
1977
Old Babes in the Wood
Stories
2023
The MaddAddam Trilogy
Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam
2013
The Year of the Flood
2009
The Secret History of Science Fiction
2009
The Heart Goes Last
2015
Bodily Harm
1981
The Blind Assassin
2000
Polarities. Selected Stories
1994
El vuelo de Samantha
2023
Positron, Episodes 1 - 3
2012
Morning In The Burned House
1995
In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
2011
The Tent
2006
The Man From Mars
2025
The Edible Woman
1969
Anna's Pet
1980
Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t
2018
Alias Grace
1996
Paper Boat
New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
2024
The Handmaid's Tale
1985
Angel Catbird, Volume 2
To Castle Catula
2017
For the Birds
1990
Dearly
New Poems
2020
Hymns of the God's Gardeners
2009
Thriller Suite
2014
Surfacing/Life Before Man/The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Surfacing
1972
The Animals in That Country
1968
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
Lady Oracle
1976
Selected Stories
2012
MaddAddam
2013
Oryx and Crake
2003
Stone Mattress
Nine Tales
2014
Good Bones, Simple Murders and The Tent
2021
Furies
Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
2023
The Freeze-Dried Groom
2014
Double Persephone
1961
A Quiet Game
And Other Early Works
1997
The Bad News
From Moral Disorder
2018
Shadow Show
All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2012
The Labrador fiasco
1996
Fourteen Days
2024
I'm Starved for You
2012
Murder in the Dark
1983
The Burgess Shale
The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s
2017
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth
2012
Up in the Tree
1978
Selected Poems Ii
1976 - 1986
1986
Dire Cartographies
The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale
2015
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
2003
In Search of "Alias Grace"
1997
On Writers and Writing
2015
Cat's Eye
1988
Erase Me
Positron, Episode 3
2012
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999
Two Solicitudes
Conversations
1996
Barbed Lyres
Canadian Venomous Verse
1990
Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
2000
Power Politics
Poems
1971
Lusus Naturae
2025
The Penelopiad
2005
Circle Game
1964
Second Words
Selected Critical Prose
1982
Two-Headed Poems
1978
A Darker Shade of Noir
New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
2023
A Trio of Tolerable Tales
2017
Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Oryx and Crake
2005
Interlunar
1984
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls
2015
Writing with Intent
Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
2005
My Evil Mother
2022
Happy Endings
1983
Angel Catbird, Volume 3
The Catbird Roars
2017
The Martians Claim Canada
2017
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
2023
Life Before Man ; Cat's Eye
1993
The Handmaid's Tale
The Graphic Novel
2019
Good Bones
1992
Labrador Fiasco & The Lure of the Labrador Wild
1999
Bluebeard's Egg
1983
Waltzing Again
New & Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
2006
Strange Things
The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
1995
Eating Fire
1998
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English
1983
The Testaments
2019
Freedom
Vintage Minis
2018
LA SERVANTE ECARLATE
Grands caractères, édition accessible pour les malvoyants
2023
Angel Catbird
2018
This Is a Photograph of Me
Girl and Horse, 1928
2009
Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
2022
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
1998
The Female Body
1990
nEvermore!
Tales Of Murder, Mystery & The Macabre - Neo-Gothic Fiction Inspired By The Imagination Of Edgar Allan Poe
2015
Curious Pursuits
Occasional Writing
2005
Selected Poems
1966-1984
2003
The World Split Open
2014
Bottle
2004
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
1995
Payback
Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
2007
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
1970
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
2008
True Stories
1981
Choke Collar
Positron, Episode 2
2012
The Power
2019
The Canlit Foodbook
1987
Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood
1992
Cut and Thirst
2024
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home
2012
Survival
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
1972
Angel Catbird, Volume 1
2016
Selected Poems 1
1976
Good Bones and Simple Murders
1994
Dancing Girls
1982
Death by Landscape
2015
You are Happy
1974
Negotiating with the Dead
2002
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda
2004
Procedures for Underground
1970
Moving Targets
2004
Hag-Seed
2016
The Robber Bride
1993
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
2024
