This useful site is maintained by the Margaret Atwood Society at the University College of the Cariboo in British Columbia, Canada. It offers a complete bibliography of Atwood's poetry, novels, short stories, literature for children, interviews, and links to criticism of Atwood's works and Canadian literature in general.

The Margaret Atwood Information Web Site
http://www.web.net/owtoad/

This site, regularly updated by Margaret Atwood, includes excellent biographical information; a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about her; transcriptions of recent lectures, essays, and reviews; a list of honors and awards; a list of Atwood's favorite causes and charities; notes on her collaborations and editing projects; and links to other informative sites.

BIOGRAPHY
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939). Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Atwood spent the first eleven years of her life in the sparsely settled "bush" country of northern Ontario and Quebec, where her father, an entomologist, did research. She began writing poems, "novels," comic books, and plays at the age of five, but did not decide to become a writer until she was sixteen. Atwood has compared writing stories to telling riddles and jokes, all three requiring "the same mystifying buildup, the same surprising twist, the same impeccable sense of timing."

Her first poem was published when she was nineteen. Since then she has published four collections of short stories, several novels, including the best-sellers Surfacing (1972), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Cat's Eye (1989), The Robber Bride (1993), and Alias Grace (1996), and more than a dozen books of poetry. She was encouraged to write as a young woman because Canadians of her generation felt a strong need to develop a national literature.