Smargaret Atwood's Thirty Years of Experience Help Her Value the Importance of Language, Not Only as a Writer, but Also as a Human.

Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. Margaret Atwood's immense talent for conveying the importance language through her characters can be seen in her writings such as The Handmaid's Tale.    
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Much of her childhood was spent in northern Quebec with her father, who was doing research as an entomologist. These experiences in her early years provided material for later writings (Stein, 200).   After graduating high school, Atwood attended the University of Toronto. It was at this university that she met the literary analyst Northrop Fry, who influenced her greatly (McHenry). She also studied Victorian literature in Cambridge at Radcliffe College and at Harvard. At the age of nineteen, she made her debut with a collection of poems called Double Persephone.  
After her first publication, Atwood made a name for herself. Over the past three decades, she has written numerous works of poetry, nonfiction and fiction, including children's books, and short stories. Her writing often focuses on feminist issues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as science fiction, Southern Ontario Gothic, comedy, and the ghost story (Davidson, 25). She continues to thrive as an author today that is known for her feministic themes in such novels as The Edible Woman and The Handmaid's Tale (Stein, 193). She currently lives with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter on a farm in Ontario (McHenry). Her most recent works of nonfiction include Negotiating With The Dead and Oryx & Crake.
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