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Trivia EH? Margaret Atwood

October 24, 2009 By Pat Williams

Trivia Eh?

Born November 18, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario.

Full name: Margaret Eleanor “Peggy” Atwood

She is the middle of three children. (an older brother and a younger sister)

She was home schooled until eighth grade (she skipped 7th)

Attended University in Toronto and earned her Masters Degree from Radcliffe College at Harvard

The Handmaids Tale was made into a movie

Married to author Graeme Gibson.

Some of the awards Atwood has received: Companion of the Order of Canada, the Governor General’s Award for fiction and poetry, the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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