Pagineborn 1939 · Ottawa, Ontario · also known as Atwood
Margaret Atwood is Canada’s most famous living writer — poet, novelist, critic and environmentalist. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a theocratic future America, became a global symbol of women’s rights; Alias Grace (1996) reimagines a real 1843 murder; and The Blind Assassin (2000) and The Testaments (2019) both won the Booker Prize.
Begin with Alias Grace.
Part of our Canadian Classics reading list — print it, email it to yourself or share it.
Susanna Moodie · L. M. Montgomery · Stephen Leacock · Gabrielle Roy · Margaret Laurence · Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood is Canada’s most famous living writer — poet, novelist, critic and environmentalist. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a theocratic future America, became a global symbol of women’s rights; Alias Grace (1996) reimagines a real 1843 murder; and The Blind Assassin (2000) and The Testaments (2019) both won the Booker Prize.
The Handmaid’s Tale is usually considered Margaret Atwood’s best-known work, followed by Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, The Edible Woman.
Most readers start with Alias Grace.
Both refer to the same writer.
Margaret Atwood’s books are still under copyright, so they are not free to download, but many can be borrowed free from your public library or Open Library — we link to them below.