Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer and poet famous for The Handmaid’s Tale.
Bio
Year of birth: (born::1939)
Year of death:
Nationality: (nationality::Canadian)
Family: Father - Carl Edmund Atwood, Mother - Margaret Dorothy Killam, Husband - Graeme Gibson
Period: (timecontext::20th century, 21st century)
Works
Important Works: (impworks::The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Blind Assassin)
Contributions: Exploration of gender and identity, dystopian fiction, speculative fiction
Key Ideas: (KeyIdeas::Feminism, Environmentalism, Dystopian Themes)
Known For: (KnownFor::The Handmaid’s Tale, Dystopian Fiction)
Influenced By: (influencedby::George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Alice Munro)