“Every crease is a story.”

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Born 1939
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in over 40 countries, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel *The Handmaid's Tale,* and her novels also include *Cat's Eye,* shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; *The Blind Assassin,* winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; *Oryx and Crake,* shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; *The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last;* *Hag-seed;* and *The Testaments,* a sequel to *The Handmaid's Tale.*
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985

The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, 2019

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood, 2002

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood, 2000

alias Grace
Margaret Atwood, 1996

The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood, 2005

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood, 1969

Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood, 1988

The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood, 2009

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood, 1972

MaddAdam
Margaret Atwood, 2013

Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood, 2016

40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz & others, 2021

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood, 1993

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Shorter Eighth Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill & others, 2015

Perrine's literature, Structure, sound and sense--Eighth edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson & others, 2001

Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound & Sense--Twelfth Edition
Greg Johnson, Thomas R. Arp & others, 2015

The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood, 2015

Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition
Kennedy, X. & Gioia & others, 2006

Literature
Edgar V. Roberts, Henry E. Jacobs & others, 1986

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood, 1976

Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Burton Beers, Anna Ahkmatova & others, 1991

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Kate Kinsella, Joan Aiken & others, 2002

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia & others, 2016

Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood, 1983

Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood, 1979

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 2010

Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood, 2006

Backpack Literature -- Sixth edition
X. J. Kennedy, Chinua Achebe & others, 2020

Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood, 1991

Literature, A Portable Anthology -- Fifth edition
Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn & others, 2021

Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood, 1977

The Norton introduction to literature--ninth edition
Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter & others, 2005

Literature--reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay
Robert DiYanni, Margaret Atwood & others, 1986

Negotiating with the Dead
Margaret Atwood, 2002

Literature, a portable anthology -- Second edition
Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn & others, 2009

Erotica
Margaret Reynolds, Margaret Atwood & others, 1990

The journals of Susanna Moodie
Margaret Atwood, 1969

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Sumner Braunstein, Isabel Allende & others, 1994

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Michael Martone, Lex Williford & others, 1999

Stone mattress
Margaret Atwood, 2014

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Eleventh Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others, 2016

Survival
Margaret Atwood, 1972

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature -- Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others, 2003

Good Bones
Margaret Atwood, 1992

Adventures in English Literature -- Athena Edition
William Keach, Chinua Achebe & others, 1996

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 2015

Bodily Harm
Margaret Atwood, 1981
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