Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author born in 1939 in Ontario. She began writing at age 5 and earned a master's degree in English literature from Radcliffe College in 1962. Some of her notable works include The Handmaid's Tale, written between 1983-1986 and published in 1986, which became a bestseller, and Alias Grace, turned into a Netflix miniseries in 2017. Atwood lived in West Berlin in 1984 and began writing The Handmaid's Tale during this time period, drawing inspiration from her experiences with the Berlin Wall. She has won two Booker Prize awards for her body of work.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author born in 1939 in Ontario. She began writing at age 5 and earned a master's degree in English literature from Radcliffe College in 1962. Some of her notable works include The Handmaid's Tale, written between 1983-1986 and published in 1986, which became a bestseller, and Alias Grace, turned into a Netflix miniseries in 2017. Atwood lived in West Berlin in 1984 and began writing The Handmaid's Tale during this time period, drawing inspiration from her experiences with the Berlin Wall. She has won two Booker Prize awards for her body of work.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author born in 1939 in Ontario. She began writing at age 5 and earned a master's degree in English literature from Radcliffe College in 1962. Some of her notable works include The Handmaid's Tale, written between 1983-1986 and published in 1986, which became a bestseller, and Alias Grace, turned into a Netflix miniseries in 2017. Atwood lived in West Berlin in 1984 and began writing The Handmaid's Tale during this time period, drawing inspiration from her experiences with the Berlin Wall. She has won two Booker Prize awards for her body of work.
By: Alejanra Flores, Ivana Sorrosa , Ricardo Bohorquez.
MARGARET ATWOODS Curious facts and details
Born in November 18,
1939 She was born in Ontario,Canada She lived in West Berlin in 1984 She began writing at the age of 5 (1943)
She has been awarded 2
Booker Prize awards, the first one was in 2000 and the second one in 2009. She began to write “The Handmaid’s Tale” during the hell of the Berlin wall (1984)
She wrote “The Handmaid's
Tale” between the years 1983 and 1986 the book was published in 1986 and quickly became a bestseller. She earned a master’s degree in English Literature from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1962. In 1969 she published her first novel “The Edible Woman” - She wrote the novel “Alias
Grace” that was turned into a Netflix miniseries in 2017 about a girl that was accused of madness so the society wanted to hang her. She lived during the ages of the Soviet Union in the 80s and the fall of the Berlin wall in .9 November 1989. Her most popular novel Handmaid’s tale has been turned into a lot of cinematographic representations in 1990 and 2017.