Margaret Atwood at RM-C April 14, 2010

Atwood is the author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Recent publications are Moral Disorder (2007), a collection of interconnected short stories, The Door (2007), a collection of poetry, and the CBC Massey Lecture Series, published by Anansi as Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008). Her newest novel, The Year of the Flood (2009), is, in the author’s words, “the meanwhile” or the “simultaneal” to her 2003 Giller Prize winner, Oryx and Crake.

Other books include the 2000 Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Robber Bride; Cat’s Eye; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Penelopiad; and The Tent. Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Atwood’s appearance at Randolph-Macon College is sponsored by R-MC’s Department of English and The Washington Literary Society and was paid for by the Merrill Munyan Fund.

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