Author Margaret Atwood has imagined a future society that imprisons law-abiding citizens (“The Heart Goes Last”), a post-apocalyptic world filled with genetically modified creatures (“Oryx and Crake”) ...

Born in Ottawa and raised in Toronto, Margaret Atwood graduated from the University of Toronto’s Victoria College in 1961 and pursued a master's at Harvard in 1963. Her teaching stint at the ...

Margaret Atwood’s latest book, Old Babes in the Woods (Doubleday, Mar. 2023), is a collection of 15 stories—her first collection since 2014’s Stone Mattress. In it she confronts aging and grief and ...

The 83-year-old Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is a keen observer of life. "Storytelling is what human beings do. And every single person you will ever meet has got 'a story of my life,' which ...

After writing fiction masterpieces such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Alias Grace," Margaret Atwood is now working on a new project: a memoir. Atwood, 83, revealed to Jenna Bush Hager that despite ...

The Handmaid’s Tale’ author published a short story taking aim at a provincial order to remove 200 books from Edmonton school ...

Memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert and Lionel Richie; history from Jill Lepore and David Nasaw; and plenty more.