Margaret Atwood was born 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1961 and a Master of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1962. Atwood is married to writer Graeme Gibson and they live in Toronto.
  |  | 
      1961Double PersephonePoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1964The Circle GamePoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1965ExpeditionsPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1965Kaleidoscopes BaroqueA Poem | 
  |  | 
      1965Talismans For ChildrenPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1966Speeches For Doctor FrankensteinPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1969The Edible Woman (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1969The Animals in That CountryPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1970The Journals of Susanna MoodiePoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1970Procedures for UndergroundPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1972Surfacing (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1972Survival
      A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature | 
  |  | 
      1973Power PoliticsPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1975You Are HappyPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1976Lady Oracle (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1976Selected PoemsPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1977Dancing Girls (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      1977Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      1978Two-Headed PoemsPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1978Up in the Tree (children) | 
  |  | 
      1979Life Before Man (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1980Anna's Pet (children) | 
  |  | 
      1981Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1981True StoriesPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1981Bodily Harm (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1982Encounters with the Element Man (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1982Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      1983Murder in the Dark (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      1983Bluebeard's Egg (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      1983Unearthing Suite (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1983Snake PoemsPoetry collection. | 
  |  | 
      1984Interlunar (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1985The Handmaid's Tale (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1986Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1988Cat's Eye (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1990Selected Poems 1966-1984 (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1990For The Birds (children) | 
  |  | 
      1991Wilderness Tips (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      1991Margaret Atwood Poems 1965-1975 (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1992Good Bones and Simple Murders (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      1993The Robber Bride (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1995Morning in the Burned House (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1995Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      1995Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (children) | 
  |  | 
      1996Alias Grace (novel) | 
  |  | 
      1998Eating Fire; Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      1998Two Solicitudes: Conversations (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      2000The Blind Assassin (novel) | 
  |  | 
      2002Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      2003Oryx and Crake (novel) | 
  |  | 
      2003Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (children) | 
  |  | 
      2004Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (nonfiction) | 
  |  | 
      2004Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (children) | 
  |  | 
      2005The Penelopiad (novel) | 
  |  | 
      2006The Tent (short stories) | 
  |  | 
      2006Moral DisorderA series of interconnected stories. | 
  |  | 
      2007The Door (poetry) | 
  |  | 
      2008Payback (non-fiction) | 
  |  | 
      2009The Year of the Flood (novel) | 
  |  | 
      2011Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery | 
  |  | 
      2011In Other WorldsSF and the Human Imagination | 
  |  | 
      2012I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth | 
  |  | 
      2013MaddAddam | 
  |  | 
  |  Printer-friendly version | 
  |  |