The most significant of these are the growth of industrial production and mass manufacturing in Canada, World War I, the rise of communism, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. It was a joint winner of the Booker Prize that year.Īs a historical novel set across the entirety of the 20th century, The Blind Assassin covers many important historical events. In 2019, she published a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale entitled The Testaments. The popularity of The Handmaid’s Tale in particular is a significant reason behind Atwood’s global fame. Some of her most famous books were published in the 1980s, including The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985 and Cat’s Eye in 1988. Throughout the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s Atwood taught at various universities while writing.
Atwood’s first book was a poetry pamphlet entitled Double Persephone, published in 1961. She and Gibson have one daughter, Eleanor, born in 1976. She married the writer Jim Polk in 1968 and divorced him five years later, beginning a relationship with another writer, Graeme Gibson, which lasted until Gibson’s death in 2019. Atwood began a PhD at Radcliffe but left after two years without finishing the degree. After graduating from high school, Atwood earned a BA in English from Victoria College in the University of Toronto followed by an MA from Radcliffe College, the women’s college that was part of Harvard University. As a child, she was a voracious reader and began writing poems and plays of her own at the age of six. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa and spent much of her childhood in rural Quebec for her father’s job.
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