Conversations from Penn State: Margaret Atwood

Genre and Gender

Award-winning Writer and Environmental Activist Margaret Atwood discusses her career.

About the Guest

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages. She was honored with the 2014 Medal for Distinguished Achievement from Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

• Margaret Atwood’s Official Website
• The Poetry Foundation: Margaret Atwood

More from the Interview

• The Silent Generation, “The Lucky Few”
• Haunted by the Handmaid’s Tale
• NY Times Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
• Celebrity Tip: Margaret Atwood
• Katie Patterson, Future Library
• Wattpad.com
• Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works
• CBC Digital Archives: Margaret Atwood Interview

Penn State Connection

• Institute for the Arts and Humanities
• Forum Speaker Series

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• Margaret Atwood’s Amazon Page

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