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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer, poet, and novelist born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa . She holds citizenship in Canada . Atwood is a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada .
Atwood was educated at several institutions, including Victoria University in Toronto , Radcliffe College , Leaside High School , and Harvard University . As a writer, she has explored various genres, such as science fiction , historical fiction , and utopian and dystopian fiction .
Some of her most notable works include The Handmaid's Tale , The Blind Assassin , Oryx and Crake , The Edible Woman [(35134808)](#not- able_work), Alias Grace , and Surfacing . Other significant texts by Atwood are Life Before Man , Cat's Eye , Dancing Girls , The Year of the Flood , The Heart Goes Last , and Hag-Seed .