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Margaret (Eleanor) born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist. Her novels include Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Alias Grace (1996), the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), and Oryx and Crake (2003)
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Atwood has been a member of the Florida Bar's Labor and Employment Section Executive Council since 2011.
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Atwood, who would later include the full text of Birney's poem--consisting of four quatrains devoid of any punctuation marks--when she edited the anthology The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, had quoted its last two stanzas in her 1977 essay, entitled "Canadian Monsters: Some Aspects of the Supernatural in Canadian Fiction":
MARGARET ATWOOD: I am interested in laws as they pertain to women, and in tracing the advent of laws that disenfranchised women and took away the things they already had.
Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale", first published in 1985, has shot back up the bestseller lists after being made into an award-winning TV series depicting a totalitarian future in a United States where women are forced into sexual servitude, Daily Star reported.
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By Rodney Atwood. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.