Margaret Eleanor Atwood is one of the most famous Canadian authors, a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
Margaret Atwood grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.
In 1973 she formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson. She moved to a farm near Alliston, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980.
She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award several times, winning twice.