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Also Known As	Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Born	November 18, 1939 (age 86) • Ottawa • Canada • (Birthday in 5 days)
Awards And Honors	PEN Pinter Prize (2016) • Booker Prize (2009) • Booker Prize (2000) • Governor General’s Literary Awards (1985)
Notable Works	“Alias Grace” • “Bluebeard’s Egg” • “Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021” • “Cat’s Eye” • “Dancing Girls” • “Dearly” • “Double Persephone” • “Hag-Seed” • “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing” • “In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination” • “Journals of Susanna Moodie” • “Lady Oracle” • “MaddAddam” • “Moral Disorder” • “Morning in the Burned House” • “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing” • “Old Babes in the Wood: Stories” • “Oryx and Crake” • “Payback” • “Stone Mattress” • “Surfacing” • “The Animals in That Country” • “The Blind Assassin” • “The Circle Game” • “The Edible Woman” • “The Handmaid’s Tale” • “The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus” • “The Robber Bride” • “The Testaments” • “The Year of the Flood” • “Wilderness Tips”