About the Author: Margaret Atwood
About the Author: Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor « Peggy » Atwood, a famous Canadian authoress, was born on November 18 th , 1939, in Ottawa. Although having been born in Canada’s national capital, Atwood grew up constantly moving from one city to the next. Having been on the move for many of her childhood years, she was made familiar with Northern Ontario and the province of Quebec. Accompanying her father on his field trips to the Canadian Wilderness, she barely had time to go to school. As a matter of fact, she did not complete a full year of school until the eighth grade. Always by her side were her parents, entomologist Carl Edmund and dietician Dorothy Killam. Then, Atwood graduated from Victoria College in 1961, where she studied art and philoso...