Margaret Atwood Novelist, poet, short story writer, critic, teacher, and feminist Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Atwood was the second of three children to Carl Edmond and Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood. She went on to marry writer, Graeme Gibson, and give birth to a daughter named Jess. Atwood’s religion was that of Immanent Transcendentalist. During her childhood, she spent her summers in Northern Quebec while her father fulfilled …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…review of The Edible Woman. The publication of her poetry collection Power Politics greatly increase her publicity. Margaret Eleanor Atwood has become a prominent figure in the contemporary literary realm. And as Linda Hutcheon has said “The many reviews and articles she has written... have contributed to making Atwood a significant cultural force...” (Hutcheon 18). ******NOTE TO READER****** All sources to create a bibliography can be found in Nineteenth Century Literary Critisms and Comtemporary Literary Critisms.