Margaret Atwood

Margaret was born in Ottawa Canada, and has two siblins. Margaret spent a lot of her childhood in Northern Quebec, because of her father’s ongoing research in forest entomology. She attended Leaside High School in Toronto, and graduated in 1957. She started writing at six years old and realized she wanted to write professionally when she was sixteen.

In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French.

In 1961, after winning the E.J Pratt Medal, she began graduate studies at Harvard's Radcliffe College. She got a master's degree in 1962 and then went to study at Harvard University for 2 years. She has taught at several different Universities across Canada, along with some in the United States.

She married Jim Polk in 1968, but then got divorced in 1973. She got into a relationship with Graeme Gibson after the divorce, and moved to a farm near Alliston Ontario. They had a daughter three years later, named Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson.

Margaret has won a significant amount of awards, her latest award she has received is The Nelly Sachs Prize in Germany, in 2010.

Here is a video clip of an interview with Maragaret Atwood, discussing her role as a social campaigner and feminist.