Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Margaret Atwood published her first poetry collection, Double Persephone, in 1961. Her collection The Circle Game (1966) won the Governor General's Award, and later poetry includes Power Politics (1971) and Morning in the Burned House (1995). She studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and received her MA from Radcliffe College, Harvard. She has twice won the Booker Prize, for The Blind Assassin (2000) and, jointly, for The Testaments (2019), and her novels include The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Her other honors include the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize.
