Literature Library author

Margaret Atwood

A concise guide to Margaret Atwood's body of work, major titles, and recurring themes.

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Forms
Literary work, Novel, Poem
Indexed works
7

Author overview

Margaret Atwood (born 1939) is a novelist, poet, and essayist whose body of work spans literary writing, novels, and poetry. This writing is associated with Canada. Major works and useful reading starting points include Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake, and Surfacing. Key themes include Truth, storytelling, and uncertainty, Gendered judgment, Class, labor, and vulnerability, and Memory as reconstruction.

Reading pathway

Begin with Alias Grace, then move to Cat's Eye, then move to Oryx and Crake.

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Representative starting points

Alias Grace

A historical novel about Grace Marks, a young domestic servant convicted of murder, and the unsettling gap between a person’s story and what others insist on believing about her.

Cat’s Eye

A painter returning to Toronto discovers that memory does not replay childhood in order: it reframes cruelty, friendship, art, and the self who survived them.

Oryx and Crake

A survivor called Snowman reconstructs how his childhood friend Crake used corporate science, consumer desire, and Jimmy's own trust to replace humankind with a designed species.

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