Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor, born in 1939. Since 1961 she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books and two graphic novels, along with a number of small press editions. She wrote The Handmaid's Tale. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. She has won numerous awards and honors, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television.