Margaret Atwood, born in 1939, is a Canadian writer, activist, and educator. She is known for both the quality and the quantity of her writing. She published her first novel—The Edible Woman—in 1969, and she has gone on to publish 18 novels, nine collections of short stories, 18 poetry collections, as well as various children's books, essays, and works of literary criticism. As a critic, she is best known for Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, which came out at a time when Canadian literature was mostly absent from the larger literary canon. Atwood is credited with having drawn attention to Canadian writers, and her identity as a Canadian author has featured heavily in...
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