Timeline: Margaret Atwood

Nov 18, 1939

A star is born

Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.

Nov 18, 1939

Places of residence

Canada, England, Scotland, and France. https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/Places_Margaret_Atwood_Has_Resided/vLF8LDTAEz

1945

The writing begins

“I became a writer partly, I think, because I was a very early reader, and I was a very early reader because I grew up in the Northwoods, and there was-- there were no other forums up there,” says Atwood. “So no radio, no television, no theatre, no cinema, no electricity, and no running water. But there were books.”

1955

Aspirations

Writing professionally.

1957

Learning from the masters

Victoria College, Ubiversity of Toronto.

1969

First Novel published

The Edible Woman

1977

First Collection of short fiction

Dancing Girls

Period: 1978 to 2001

Children´s books 1978-2001

• Up in the Tree (1978)
• Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
• For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
• Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
• Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
• Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
• Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery (2011)