Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood (full name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood) is definitely among the best female authors of the 21st century. She grew up in Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, and was born on 18 November 1939). This Canadian writer has always been known for her feminist viewpoints and prose fiction.

During most of her adolescence, Margaret Atwood divided most of her free time between her family's residence in Toronto and the bush countryside regions in Canada, in which her dad (who was an entomologist) often conducted much research. The author started her writing habit at the mere age of five and decided to take her writing career more seriously 10 years later. After graduating from Victoria College, she successfully earned an English literature master's degree in Massachusetts, Radcliffe College, in 1962.

Margaret Atwood has always been a lot of things - and "boring" is definitely not among them. She's a novelist, poet, teacher, essayist, and also an environmental activist - all of which are the exact opposite of "mundane" and "boring”!

Margaret Atwood is most famous for the novel "The Handmaid's Tale", in which women are made to take rigid society roles due to the surge of totalitarian regimes. The book's immense success spawned a critically-acclaimed film series on Hulu, as well as a follow-up novel released in 2019.

Born: 1939

Notable works: The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin