POETRY
Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995. London: Virago Press Limited, 1998.
Morning in the Burned House. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
Margaret Atwood Poems 1965-1975. London:
Virago Press Limited, 1991.
Selected Poems 1966-1984. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986. Toronto: Oxford, 1986.
Interlunar. Toronto: Oxford, 1984.
Snake Poems. London, ON: Salamander Press,
1983.
Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written. London, ON: Salamander Press, 1981.
True Stories. Toronto: Oxford; 1981.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Charles Pachter, Manuel and Abel Bello-Sanchez, 1980.
Two-Headed Poems. Toronto: Oxford, 1978.
Marsh, Hawk. Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1977.
Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford, 1976.
You Are Happy. Toronto: Oxford, 1974.
Power Politics. Toronto: Anansi, 1971.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto:
Oxford, 1970.
Procedures for Underground. Toronto: Oxford, 1970.
The Animals in That Country. Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1969.
Speeches For Doctor Frankenstein. Bloomfield
Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1966.
Kaleidoscopes Baroque: A Poem. Bloomfield
Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1965.
Talismans For Children. Bloomfield Hills,
MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1965.
Expeditions. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1965.
The Circle Game. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook
Academy of Art, 1964.
Double Persephone. Kitchener: Hawkshead
Press, 1961; pamphlet.
SOUND RECORDINGS
The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood, Caedmon, 1977. [voice recording: The Animals in that Country and Power Politics]
OTHER WORK
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda. Toronto: Key Porter, 2004.
Moving Targets: Writing With Intent 1982-2004. Toronto: Anansi, 2004.
Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. Toronto: Key Porter, 2003.
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
The Blind Assassin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000.
Two Solicitudes: Conversations. with Victor-Levy Beaulieu. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998.
Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret, and Robert Weaver, eds. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. Toronto: Key Porter, 1995.
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
Good Bones. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.
Wilderness Tips. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.
For The Birds. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
Atwood, Margaret, and Shannon Ravenel, eds. The Best American Short Stories, 1989. Toronto: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Cat's Eye. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988.
Atwood, Margaret, ed. The Canlit Foodbook. Toronto: Totem Books, 1987.
Atwood, Margaret, and Robert Weaver, eds. The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986.
The Handmaid's Tale. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985.
Bluebeard's Egg. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983.
Murder in the Dark. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1983.
Unearthing Suite. Toronto: Grand Union Press, 1983.
Encounters with the Element Man. Concord, New Hampshire: Ewert, 1982.
Atwood, Margaret, ed. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose. Toronto: Anansi, 1982.
Bodily Harm. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981.
Anna's Pet. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980.
Life Before Man. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979.
Up In The Tree. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978.
Dancing Girls. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840. Toronto: Natural Science of Canada, 1977.
Lady Oracle. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.
Surfacing. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Survival. Toronto: Anansi, 1972.
The Edible Woman. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969.
Abley, Mark. “Dire Things: An Interview with Margaret
Atwood.” Poetry Canada Review 15.2 (1995): 1, 3+.
Atwood, Margaret. “Why I Write Poetry.” This
Magazine 29.6/7 (1996): 44-48.
Auerbach , Nina. Romantic Imprisonment: Women and
Other Glorified Outcasts. New York: Columbia University Press,
1985.
Ayre, John. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography, by Nathalie Cooke. Books In Canada 27.8 (1998): 39.
Bowering, George. “Atwood’s Hook.” Open
Letter 8.2 (1992): 81-90.
Carey, Barbara. Rev. of Selected Poems, 1966-1984, by Margaret Atwood. Books In Canada 19.9 (1990): 49.
Carrington, Ildiko De Papp. Margaret Atwood and Her Works. Toronto: ECW, 1985.
Cooke, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: A Biography.
Toronto: ECW Press, 1998.
Davey, F. Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1984.
Davidson, A.E. and C.N. Davidson, Eds. The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism. Toronto: Anansi, 1980.
Davey, Frank. “Atwood’s Gorgon Touch.”
Studies in Canadian Literature 2.2 (1977): 146-63.
Djwa, Sandra. “‘Here I Am’: Atwood, Paper
Houses, and a Parodic Tradition.” Essays on Canadian Writing
71 (2000): 169-185.
Fiamengo, Janice. “A Last Time for This Also: Margaret
Atwood’s Texts of Mourning.” Canadian Literature 166
(2000): 145-164.
Fiamengo, Janice. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography, by Nathalie Cooke. American Review of Canadian Studies 29.4 (1999): 669-671.
Fox, James. Margaret Atwood: Anatomy of Alienation.
Ottawa: Canadian Theses Division, National Library, 1978.
Gerson, Mark. Rev. of Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous
Verse, by Margaret Atwood. Quill & Quire 56.11
(1990): 20.
Givner, Joan. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography, by Nathalie Cooke. Quill & Quire 64.9 (1998): 58.
Godard, Barbara. “Telling It Over Again: Atwood’s
Art of Parody.” Canadian Poetry 21 (1987): 1-30.
Goldie, Terry. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Feminist
Poetics, by Frank Davey. Journal of Canadian Poetry 11.9
(1986): 127-128.
Grace, Sherrill E. Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret
Atwood. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1979.
Grace, Sherrill E. and Lorraine Weir. Margaret Atwood:
Language, Text and System. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1983.
Haag, Stefan. “Ecological Aurality and Silence in
Margaret Atwood.” Canadian Poetry 47 (2000): 14-39.
Hammill, Faye. “Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and ‘That Moodie Bitch.’” American Review of Canadian Studies 29.1 (1999): 67-92.
Hengen, Shannon. “Margaret Atwood’s Power: Mirrors,
Reflections & Images in Select Fiction & Poetry.” Literary
Review of Canada 4.8 (1995): 9-10.
Hengen, Shannon. Margaret Atwood’s Power.
Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, 1988.
Horne, Alan J. Margaret Atwood: An Annotated Bibliography
(Poetry). Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1980.
Howells, Coral Ann. Margaret Atwood. New
York: St. Martin’s, 1996.
Howells, Coral Ann and Vevaina, Coomi S, eds. Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998.
Ingersoll, Earl G., ed. Margaret Atwood: Conversations.
Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 1990.
Irvine, George. Rev. of Interlunar, by Margaret
Atwood. Journal of Canadian Poetry 11.9 (1986): 2-6.
Jamieson, Sara. “Mourning in the Burned House: Margaret
Atwood and the Modern Elegy.” Canadian Poetry 48 (2001):
38-68.
Jarraway, David. Rev. of Selected Poems, 1966-1984,
by Margaret Atwood. Journal of Canadian Poetry 7 (1992):
7-13.
Jones, Anne G. Margaret Atwood: Songs of the Transformer, Songs of the Transformed. Hollins, VA: Hollins College, 1979.
Kertzer, Jon. “A Blizzard in my Eyes.” Rev. of The Journals of Susanna Moodie, by Margaret Atwood. Canadian Literature 175 (2002): 118.
Kim, Youngmin. “The Experimental Spirit in Canadian Poetry: Margaret Atwood, Eli Mandel, George Bowering, and the Experimental Poets Thereafter.” Journal of English Language and Literature 49.4 (2003): 755-780.
Korolczuk, Elzbieta. “One Woman Leads to Another:
Female Identity in the Works of Margaret Atwood.” American
Studies 21 (2004): 35-51.
Maingon, Loys. Rev. of Selected Poems, 1966-1984,
by Margaret Atwood. Canadian Materials 19.1 (1991): 47.
Malinson, Jean. Margaret Atwood and Her Works. Toronto: ECW, 1984.
Marshall, Tom. Rev. of Selected Poems II: Poems
Selected And New, 1976-1986, by Margaret Atwood. Poetry
Canada Review 8.2/3 (1987): 40.
Massoura, Kiriaki. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography,
by Nathalie Cooke. British Journal of Canadian Studies 13.2
(1998): 415-416.
McCombs, Judith, ed. Critical Essays on Margaret
Arwood. Boston, MA: Hall, 1988.
McCombs, Judith, and Carole L. Palmer. Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide. Boston, MA: Hall, 1991.
Mendez-Egle, Beatrice and James M. Haule, eds. Margaret Atwood: Reflection and Reality. Edinburg, Texas: Pan American University, 1987.
Neuman, Shirley. “After Modernism: English-Canadian
Poetry since 1960.” Studies on Canadian Literature.
Ed. Arnold E. Davidson. New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
1990. 54-73.
Nicholson, Colin, ed. Margaret Atwood: Writing and
Subjectivity: New Critical Essays. Toronto: Macmillan, 1994.
Nicholson, Colin. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography,
by Nathalie Cooke. Canadian Literature 165 (2000): 125-126.
Nischik, Reingard M. Margaret Atwood: Works and
Impact. Toronto: Anansi, 2002.
Perry, Richard. Rev. of The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood, [sound recording]. Quill and Quire 54.2 (1988): 27.
Powe, B.W. “‘How to Act’: An Essay on Margaret
Atwood.” A Climate Charged. B.W. Powe. Oakville: Mosaic
Press, 1984. 145-156.
Ramaswamy, S. “Time, Space and Place in Two Canadian
Poems: An Indian View.” International Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue
International d'Etudes Canadian 15 (1997): 121-133.
Rampton, David. Rev. of Selected Poems II: Poems
Selected and New, 1976-1986, by Margaret Atwood. Journal
of Canadian Poetry 31.9 (1988): 8-11.
Rao, Eleonora. Strategies for Identity. New York: P. Lang, 1993.
Relke, Diana. “Double Voices, Single Vision: A Feminist
Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie.”
Atlantis 9.1 (1983): 35-48.
Rigney, Barbara Hill. Margaret Atwood. Totowa,
NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1987.
Rosenberg, Jerome H. Margaret Atwood. Boston:
Twayne, 1984.
Smith, Russell and T.F. Rigelhof. Rev. of A Dragon and a Princess: Negotiating with the Dead: a Writer on Writing, by Margaret Atwood. Books In Canada 31.4 (2002): 5-6.
Snell, Marilyn. “Power and Non-power: Margaret Atwood.”
Interview. The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists.
Ed. Beverley Daurio. Toronto: Mercury, 1998. 20-24.
Soderstrom, Mary. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography,
by Nathalie Cooke. Montreal Review of Books 2.1 (1998/1999):
13.
Stein, Karen. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: A Biography,
by Nathalie Cooke. University of Toronto Quarterly 70.1
(2000/2001): 536-539.
Stein, Karen F. Rev. of Margaret Atwood: Writing
and Subjectivity: New Critical Essays, ed. Colin Nicholson. University
of Toronto Quarterly 65.1 (1995/1996): 226-228.
Stein, Karen. Rev. of The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood
Starting Out, by Rosemary Sullivan. University of Toronto
Quarterly 70.1 (2000/2001): 536-539.
Stein, Karen F. Margaret Atwood Revisited.
New York: Twayne, 1999.
Strehle, Susan. “Margaret Atwood: Bringing Back the Treasure.” Contemporary Literature 44.4 (2003): 737-742.
VanSpanckeren, Kathryn and Jan Garden Castro, eds. Margaret
Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1988.
VonMaltzahn, Nicholas. Rev. of Morning in the Burned
House, by Margaret Atwood. Journal of Canadian Poetry
12 (1997): 5-11.
Wilson, Sharon Rose. Margaret Atwood’s
Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Columbus: Ohio
State University Press, 2003.
Workman, Nancy. “Vulnerability in Margaret Atwood’s
‘Rape Fantasies’: A Game of Cards about Life.” Studies
in Canadian Literature 25.2 (2000): 131-144.
York, Lorraine M. “Home Thoughts or Abroad? A Rhetoric of Place in Modern and Postmodern Canadian Political Poetry.” Essays on Canadian Writing 51/52 (1993): 321-339.
York, Lorraine M. “Prayers for Canadian Daughters: Gender Specificity and the Parental Advice Poem.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 18.1/2 (1992/1993): 60-69.
York, Lorraine M., ed. Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels. Toronto: Anansi, 1995.
DISSERTATIONS
Gault, Cinda. “Female and National Identities: Laurence, Atwood, and Engel, 1965-1980.” Dissertation. York University, 2003.
Newland, Nancy.“Journeys of Self-Transformation in Contemporary Literature (Annie Proulx, Margaret Atwood, Mark Salzman).” Dissertation. State University of New York Empire State College, 2004.
Ridout, Alice Rachel. “‘To Be and Not to Be’: The Politics of Parody in Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing.” Dissertation. University of Toronto, 2004.
Senecal, Nikole Alexa. “(Mis)Representations of Violent Women.” Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2002.
Uppal, Priscila. “Recovering the Past Through Language and Landscape: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy.” York University, 2004.
Verwaayen, Kimberly J. “Through the Looking-glass of Poststructuralist AutoBYography, and, Four (Eight? Fifteen?) Canadian Women’s Texts.” The University of Western Ontario, 2004.
1966: Governor General’s Award, The Circle Game
1985: Governor General’s Award, The Handmaid's Tale
1997: National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature
2000: The Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
2000: Inducted to Canada’s Walk of Fame
2001: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, The Blind Assassin
2001: International Association of Crime Writers’ Dashiell Hammett Award: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is perhaps one of the best known and most prolific of Canadian writers. Born in Ottawa in 1939, Atwood has published fifteen books of poetry, ten books of fiction, and five books of short fiction. She also writes non-fiction and children’s books. She has twice received the Governor General’s Award, in 1966 for one of her earliest collections of poetry, The Circle Game, and in 1985 for her novel The Handmaid's Tale. Her latest publication, Writing With Intent, offers a personal history ofher writing life. Atwood studied at the University of Toronto under Northrop Frye, and attended graduate school at Harvard. She has worked as an editor at the House of Anansi Press, and has served as vice-chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. Atwood is also a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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