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MARGARET E. ATWOOD...
Margaret E. Atwood, a celebrated and prolific author and poet, is largely hailed as Canada’s foremost contemporary writer...
...Atwood says the intense study did much to help her as a writer. “These were the days before deconstructionism. We simply read books.” She also enjoyed the rigidity of her courses in English grammar, responding to its scientific laws of “right and wrong?...
After Toronto, Atwood attended graduate school at Radcliffe, from which she received a Master’s degree in English in 1962. She finished three-quarters of a thesis, but graduated just short of a PhD. “By that time, it was obvious that I was going to be making a living being a writer,” she says, having already come out with several books of poetry by this time...
Like The Blind Assassin and many of her other novels, the bulk of Oryx and Crake is told in flashback, giving the reader a peculiar sense of suspense for events that have already taken place. In a mystery novel, Atwood says, “the immediate story is who gets to be dead. If, however, you’re dealing with a family, then that’s where the story...