What is Margaret Atwood’s net worth?
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet and novelist who has a net worth of $25 million. She is best known for her dystopian work, ”The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Atwood has received many literary awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Booker Prize.
She was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Her mother, Margaret Dorothy Killam, was a former nutritionist and dietician, while her father, Carl Edmund Atwood, was an entomologist (a scientist who studies insects).
Margaret read a wide variety of material from an early age, from comic to mystery books to more traditional literature.
Atwood did not attend school full-time until she was 11.
From 1957 to 1961, she studied English, with minors in French and philosophy, at the University of Toronto.
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In 1961, she published her first book of poetry, named – ”Double Persephone.” The book received the E.J. Pratt Medal.
In 1969, Margaret published a novel in which themes of women’s alienation echo those in her poetry, titled – ”The Edible Woman.”
From 1971 to 1972, she taught at York University in Toronto.
From May 1981 to May 1982, Atwood served as the President of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
The Handmaid’s Tale
In 1985, Atwood published ”The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian novel set in the near future, in which the US has become a fundamentalist theocracy. The story is told in first-person narration by a woman named Offred.
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Atwood said about ”The Handmaid’s Tale”:
”I began this book almost 30 years ago, in the spring of 1984, while living in West Berlin – still encircled, at that time, by the infamous Berlin Wall.”
The novel won the Governor General’s Award in 1985. It remained on the bestseller list for 23 weeks. The book has been translated into 20 languages.
The book has been adapted into a 2017 television series (created by Bruce Miller), a 2000 opera, and a 1990 film. A graphic novel based on this book was published by Renée Nault in 2019.
From 1984 to 1986, Atwood was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre.
In 2000, she published her 10th novel, titled – ”The Blind Assassin.” It was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2000.
In 2003, she published a speculative fiction and adventure romance novel called ”Oryx and Crake.” It focuses on a post-apocalyptic character called “Snowman.” Later that year, the novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Margaret published the novella The Penelopiad in 2005. Three years later, Margaret published a collection of five lectures, called – ”Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.”
In 2019, she published the novel ”The Testaments.” The book is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. It is set about 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood said in an interview:
”People had been asking me to write a sequel for a long time, and I always said no, because I thought they meant the continuation of the story of Offred which I couldn’t do.”
Husband
In 1968, Margaret Atwood got married to American writer Jim Polk. The couple divorced in 1973.
Later, Atwood started a romantic relationship with novelist Graeme Gibson.
Some of his novels include The Bedside Book of Beasts, Five Legs, The Bedside Book of Birds, Communion, Eleven Canadian Novelists, Perpetual Motion, and Gentleman Death.
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Graeme Gibson died on September 18, 2019, in London, England.
Children
Margaret and Graeme Gibson welcomed their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, in 1976.
Margaret Atwood, her daughter Jess, and Graeme Gibson – © Guliver / Getty Images
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Quotes
”Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
”Predicting the future isn’t really possible: There are too many variables and unforeseen possibilities.” (NY Times)
”The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”
”I suffer more vicious attacks, more personal attacks, in Canada, because that’s where I’m from.” (The Paris Review)
”In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
”When people are scared, and they think things are falling apart, they get more conservative.” (Vulture)
”War is what happens when language fails.”
Trivia
She is the inventor and developer of the LongPen, a remote signing device that makes it possible for an individual to remotely write in ink anywhere in the world via a robotic hand and the Internet and tablet PC.
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Net Worth 2024
So, how much is Margaret Atwood worth? Atwood earned most of her wealth from selling her novels and poems. At the moment, she has written 18 novels, including – MaddAddam, The Edible Woman, The Year of the Flood, Surfacing, The Penelopiad, Lady Oracle, Oryx and Crake, Life Before Man, The Blind Assassin, Bodily Harm, Alias Grace, The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Therefore, Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
Margaret is also the author of over 18 books of poetry, including Morning in the Burned House, Eating Fire, The Door, Interlunar, The Circle Game, Snake Poems, Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein, Love Songs of a Terminator, The Animals In That Country, True Stories, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Two-Headed Poems, You Are Happy, Dearly, Power Politics, and Procedures for Underground.
Her most profitable and renowned book is The Handmaid’s Tale. In 2017, Amazon reported that the novel was the most-read book of the year.
Is Margaret Atwood still alive?
Yes, Margaret Atwood is still alive. She continues to live in Toronto.
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