For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Critic, feminist, novelist and poet                          

Selected Works:

The Edible Woman - 1969
Surfacing - 1972
Lady Oracle - 1976
Life Before Man - 1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award
Bodily Harm - 1981
The Handmaid's Tale - 1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize
Cat's Eye - 1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize
The Robber Bride - 1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award
Alias Grace - 1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award
The Blind Assassin - 2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award
Oryx and Crake - 2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award
The Penelopiad - 2005, longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award
The Year of the Flood - 2009

Poetry collections:

Double Persephone - 1961
The Circle Game - 1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award
Expeditions - 1965
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein - 1966
The Animals in That Country - 1968
The Journals of Susanna Moodie - 1970
Procedures for Underground - 1970
Power Politics - 1971
You Are Happy - 1974
Selected Poems - 1976
Two-Headed Poems - 1978
True Stories - 1981
Love songs of a Terminator - 1983
Interlunar - 1984
Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart - 1995
Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 - 1998
The Door - 2007

Dancing Girls - 1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction
Murder in the Dark - 1983
Bluebeard's Egg - 1983
Through the One-Way Mirror - 1986
Wilderness Tips - 1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award
Good Bones - 1992
Good Bones and Simple Murders - 1994
The Labrador Fiasco - 1996
The Tent - 2006
Moral Disorder - 2006

Anthologies edited:

The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse - 1982
The Canlit Foodbook - 1987
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English - 1988
The Best American Short Stories 1989 - 1989 - with Shannon Ravenel
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English - 1995

Children's books:

Up in the Tree - 1978
Anna's Pet - 1980 with Joyce C. Barkhouse
For the Birds - 1990 - with Shelly Tanaka
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut - 1995
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes - 2003
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda - 2006

Non-fiction:

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature - 1972
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 - 1977
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose - 1982
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature - 1995
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing - 2002
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004 - 2004
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 - 2005
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth - 2008

Drawings:

Kanadian Kultchur Komix featuring "Survivalwoman" in This Magazine under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975-1980                          

Mother Margaret Dorothy Killiam
Father Carl Edmund Atwood



Married Jim Polk in 1968. Divorced in 1973.
Got together with Graeme Gibson and had a daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson. Graeme had two sons from a previous marriage, Matt and Grae.                          

Maargaret Atwood donated her Booker Prize money to environmental causes and gave up her house in France after Jacques Chirac resumed nuclear testing. 

An active member of Amnesty International, Margaret Atwood  promised a free subscription to its bimonthly reports to the next person who accused her of being too pessimistic; it is unknown if anyone has.