Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of
fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye,
The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the
MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was
followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global
number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she
published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award
for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime
Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she
was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for
services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist,
illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in
Toronto, Canada.
"A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker
interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world
of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of
Atwood's handmaid!" —The Washington Post Book World
"The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." —San
Francisco Chronicle
"Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to
their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel
about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's
still allowed." —Houston Chronicle
"Splendid." —Newsweek
"A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker
interconnections between politics and sex . . . Just as the world
of Orwell's 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of
Atwood's handmaid!" -The Washington Post Book World
"The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." -San
Francisco Chronicle
"Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to
their logical and chilling conclusions . . . An excellent novel
about the directions our lives are taking . . . Read it while it's
still allowed." -Houston Chronicle
"Splendid." -Newsweek
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