Free Handmaids Tale Essays: Life and Times of Margaret Atwood :: Handmaids Tale Essays

The Life and Times of Margaret Atwood   Three Sources Cited     Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939. She lived in a cabin in the Canadian wilderness for most of her childishness (her father was a forest entomologist), and that is where she gained her love for books and reading - probably from boredom. She also took up writing during this time, at the age of six (Margaret Atwood). Sshe came to want ot be a source her senior year in high school when she says, all of a sudden a big thumb came out of the sky and stirred my head and a poem was formed. Who would relieve oneself thought that the young girl who lived in the woods would grow to become a prominent female writer and poet? Atwood went on to attend Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received a bachelors degree there in 1961 and went on to receive her Masters from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. In addition, she attended Harvard University in 1962 - 63 and 1965 - 67 (Information Page). When she made the decision to be a writer she said she wanted to lead a double bearing. (Margaret Atwood). This double life would complicate going places I havent been to examine life on earth to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible to be surprised...to give back something of what I have received, said Atwood (Margaret Atwood). She certainly achieved this goal of a double life. Atwood managed to live many places around the world in order to examine life on earth. Here is a time line of the places she lived during certain years of her life.       1939 - 1945 Ottawa 1945 Sault Ste. Marie 1946 - 1961 Toronto 1961 - 1963 Boston 1963 - 1964 Toronto 1964 - 1965 Vancouver 1965 - 1967 Boston 1967 - 1968 Montreal 1968 - 1970 Edmonton 1970 - 1971 England (London), France, Italy 1971 - 1972 Toronto 1973 - 1980 Alliston, Ontario 1980 - 1983 Toronto 1983 - 1984 England, Germany 1985 Alabama 1986 - 1991 Toronto 1 992 France 1992 - Present Toronto   As is evident, she liked to bm around a lot and to see different people and different things (Information Page).        Although Atwood would have preferred to stay home and write all day she did have a number of jobs over the years.