1. She was born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2. She did not attend school full-time until she was 11 years old.
3. She studied at Victoria University in the University of Toronto and earned a BA in Engligh with minors in Philosophy and French.
4. She attended graduate school at Harvard's Radcliffe College with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship.
5. She has taught at the University of British Columbia, Sir George Williams University in Montreal, the University of Alberta, York University in Toronto, and New York University.
6. She won the E.J. Pratt Medal for her privately printed book of poems, Double Persephone.
7. Her book The Handmaid's Tale received the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award.
8. Her novel The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000; it's on my 100 books list.
9. Her latest novel is entitled The Year of the Flood.
10. She holds honorary degrees from 13 Universities.
Have you read any of her many novels, poems or stories?
