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Article: Margaret Atwood complex in writing and in conversation
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2004
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Margaret Atwood's assistant called Margaret Atwood's publicist,
who called the reporter at the Deseret Morning News and left a
message: "You were supposed to interview Margaret Atwood at noon."
At 12:20, when the reporter returned from lunch and got the
message, she was horrified. Atwood is, after all, one of North
America's premier authors, and she was about to do a reading in Salt
Lake City.
Atwood, a Canadian, has written poems, short stories, children's
books, history and criticism, but is most famous for her novels,
including "Cat's Eye," "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Robber Bride,"
"Alias Grace" and the Booker Award-winning "Blind Assassin."
Her work has been translated into dozens of ...