Margaret Atwood

Biography

Margaret Atwood is the author of many books, including collections of poetry, essays, and stories, as well as works of speculative fiction that include some of her best-known novels. She received the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin (2000), the Giller Prize for Alias Grace (1996), and the Governor General’s Award for The Handmaid’s Tale (1986). Her other notable works include, among others, the trilogy Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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ESSAYS / Winter 2005

A Soap Bubble Hovering Over the Void: A Tribute to Carol Shields

By Margaret Atwood

I began reading Carol Shields’ books many years ago, with The Box Garden. In that novel there’s a passage that made me laugh so hard I thought I would do myself an injury. It’s the chapter describing a mother with scant taste but a lot of...