Margaret Atwood Net Worth and Writing Career

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Canadian author Margaret Atwood has written many highly rated novels, poetry collections, and short stories. Her writings have been adapted for the big screen and translated into a wide range of languages. Atwood created the Writers' Trust of Canada and the Griffin Poetry Prize. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at Massey College in Toronto.

Margaret Atwood Net Worth

The famous Canadian poet Margaret Atwood net worth is estimated to be $25 million. She is one of the most paid writers, as she has written a lot of famous books, many of which have been adapted into movies and TV shows.

Margaret Atwood's main sources of revenue include book sales, royalties, and speaking engagements. Her most famous work is The Handmaid's Tale. She is the creator of the LongPen tool and other related technologies that allow document writing to be done remotely and robotically.

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Margaret Atwood Early Life

On November 18, 1939, Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is the second of three children born to Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret Dorothy. Her father is an entomologist and her mother is a former nutritionist and dietitian. Atwood's father conducted forest insect research, so she spent a large part of her early years in the northern Quebec backwoods.

Her first full-time school year began when she was twelve years old. She had an intense passion for reading books. She graduated in 1957 from Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto. At six years old, Atwood started to write plays and poetry.

When Atwood was sixteen, she knew she wanted to be a professional writer. She started attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1957. While there, she participated in the senior theatrical tradition of The Bob Comedy Revue and wrote poetry and articles in the college literary newspaper.

With a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, Atwood started her graduate studies at Harvard University's Radcliffe College in 1961. She completed her PhD studies for two years after receiving her master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962, but she did not finish her thesis.

Margaret Atwood Career

In 1961, Double Persephone, Margaret Atwood's debut poetry collection, was released as a booklet by Hawkshead Press and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. From 1964 to 1965, Atwood taught English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver while also producing her own works.

From 1967 to 1968, she was an English teacher at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. From 1969 to 1970, she was a professor at the University of Alberta. In 1966, she published another poetry collection, The Circle Game, which won the Governor General's Award.

The first novel of Margaret Atwood "the edible woman" was released in 1969. Many critics have frequently mentioned the novel as an early illustration of the feminist issues seen in many of Atwood's works, citing it as an expose of North American materialism.

From 1971 to 1972, Atwood was a professor at York University in Toronto. In the academic year 1972–1973, she was a writer in residence at the University of Toronto. Over the decade, Atwood released six collections of poetry.

In 1972 she published the famous novel Surfacing. Because of Surfacing, Margaret Atwood became recognized as a significant and developing voice in Canadian literature. Margaret Atwood short stories collection Dancing Girls was published in 1977 and won 2 awards.

Atwood's life, works, and level of interest grew to the point where, by 1976, she was known as most gossiped writer of Canada. In 1985, she wrote The Handmaid's Tale novel, which won the Governor General Award and Booker Prize.

"Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood was published in the 1980s and significantly contributed to her success. This novel won many awards including the Governor General's Award in 1988 and Brooker Prize in the next year.

Atwood kept up her teaching throughout the 1980s, holding positions as the Berg Professor of English at New York University in 1986 and the MFA Honorary Chair at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1985.

The tenth novel of Margaret Atwood "the blind assassin" was published in 2000. Atwood received positive reviews and was awarded the Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize. With the publication of her eleventh book, The Blind Assassin, in 2000, In addition, The Blind Assassin received nominations for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Governor General's Award in 2000.

The famous novel by Margaret Atwood, "Penelopiad", was written in 2005. A theater presentation of The Penelopiad took place in 2007. With co-creator and illustrator Johnnie Christmas, Atwood started writing the superhero comic book series Angel Catbird in 2016.

She established Unotchit Inc. to design and manufacture remote robotic writing technology. She presented LongPen, a device that uses a tablet PC and the Internet to allow anyone to write ink remotely anywhere in the world.

Biography of Margaret Atwood

In 1968, Atwood married American writer Jim Polk. But the couple separated in 1973. Soon after, she moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where she met and eventually married fellow novelist Graeme Gibson. Their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.

In 1980, the family moved back to Toronto. Even until September 18, 2019, Atwood and Gibson remained together. Gibson passed away from dementia. She discussed Gibson in the poem ‘Dearly’ and in a ‘Piece’ that was published in The Guardian in 2020, along with an essay about loss and poetry.

Margaret Atwood Books

Some of the famous Margaret Atwood novels and books are as follows:

• The Edible Woman
• Surfacing
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Dancing Girls
• My Evil Mother

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q. What is the latest Margaret Atwood book?

Ans: "Democracy: Eleven Writers and Leaders on What It Is – and Why It Matters" is her most recent book.

Q. Has the Nobel Prize been awarded to Margaret Atwood?

Ans: No, Margaret Atwood is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize, but she has won many other prizes, including the Brooker Prize.

Q. What influenced Margaret Atwood?

Ans: After reading Edgar Allen Poe's works in high school, Atwood started writing poetry.