![]() Atwood published her first work in 1961, a book of poetry that won the E.J. In 1961, Atwood moved to Radcliffe College (Harvard’s corollary institution for women, since Harvard was male-only at the time) where she earned a master’s degree and began working on her doctorate, though she abandoned her dissertation midway through. By 16, Atwood was determined to be a professional writer, and after graduating high school in Leaside, Toronto in 1957, studied at the University of Toronto, where she began publishing her work in the university’s literary journal. ![]() Although Atwood was an avid writer from the age of six, penning poems and small plays, she did not attend school full-time until age 12. ![]() Due to her father’s study of forest-dwelling insects, Atwood and her family spent much of their time in rural Quebec and traveling between Ottawa and Toronto. Margaret Atwood was born the middle child of three to her entomologist father and dietician mother in 1939. ![]()
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