Who is Margaret Atwood?
Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood/Starting Out, the first portrait of Canada’s most famous novelist, focusing on her childhood and formative years as a writer and the generation she grew up in. When Margaret Atwood was a little girl in 1949, she saw a movie called The Red Shoes. It is the story of a beautiful young woman who becomes a famous ballerina, but commits suicide when she cannot satisfy one man, who wants her to devote her entire life to her art, and another who loves her, but subjugates her to become his muse and inspiration. She struggles to choose art, but the choice eventually destroys her. Margaret Atwood remembers being devastated by this movie but unlike many young girls of her time, she escaped its underlying message. Always sustained by a strong sense of self, Atwood would achieve a meteoric literary career. Yet a nurturing sense of self-confidence is just one fascinating side of our most famous literary fi
Margaret Atwood, born on 18 November 1939, is a famous Canadian writer who has authored many poems, short stories and novels. Atwood is also a feminist, literary critic, and political activist. In addition to receiving national and international awards for her writing, Margaret Atwood is a member of the Order of Canada. This membership is the highest honor that is awarded to Canadian civilians.
