Margaret Atwood

[toni]

In terms of achievement, I don't know if the woman sleeps - she seems to read widely, write rapidly, yet somehow is also one of the biggest self-promoters there are (she has a blog, facebook, twitter, you name it), plus she supposedly answers all her mail, and does a lot of work for Pen Canada and other organizations - as well as appears at every book promotion event possible.

Amazing feats indeed. If I'm not mistaken, she barely stands a little over 5 feet. I wonder how she manages all those activities with such a small body frame.
I most especially admire her for being vocal about rights of artists and freedom of expression, among others.

[Bakiryu]

I love and admire her work. Despite or because of her feminist agenda. Mostly because it resembles MY feminist agenda. Some of you are complaining of her being depressing but books don't have to be happy, that's not real life and her work shows that.

[hessenkat]

Margret Atwood is one of my favourite authors. She is an accalimed feminist writer and is well respected in many academic circles. My favourite of her books has to be The Handmaid's Tale is it really makes the reader think of what is happening in our own society, as our author uses past and current events to create a dystopian, and frankly scary, future society.

Other books you may like to read is Alias Grace, which is a story based on factual events which happened in the late 19th century. However, Atwood consructs a fictional character in the Dr. Jordan, who researches the case of Grace Marks. The story makes the reader consider whether or not Marks' is an insane murderer, or whether she did what she did through being lead astray by McDermott.

You might also want to look at her poetry.

[Night_Lamp]

Very intelligent woman, and a talented writer. As much as I admire her craft I find the constant man-hating-feminism tiring.

[TurquoiseSunset]

I have only read 'The Handmaid's Tale' and although I enjoyed the plot I became bored with her writing style. I found myself wanting to rush through it and move on to something else. Calling her style monotonous is, in my opinion, absolutely correct.

I agree, because I had the same experience. Atwood's books are love it or hate it stuff for me. Hate might be a strong word though in this instance, but you get what I'm trying to say...

[Phaedra's Love]

A classmate got Atwood's number from a friend of a friend of a relative of a...
and called her. I wasn't there but, he said things like "Hi I'm Jake I'm an exchange student living in China... We're analyzing The Handmaid's Tale in class right now" etc.
He said that she was quite mean. Apparently she was very shocked and kept asking "How did you get my number" (I would too if I were her). And everytime he complimented her, like "I love your work/you're such a great writer/it really moved me", she acted like she'd heard it all before (well, I'm sure she has) and just said "Okay." to everything. Hahahaha.

[dfloyd]

is akin to wanting to meet a duck if you like foi gras.