Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 18 November 1939, she has written more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, criticism and graphic work, published in more than forty-five countries.
Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which won the Governor General's Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and its sequel The Testaments (2019), a joint winner of the Booker Prize. She h...
Robert Weaver is known for his work with Canadian short fiction. He edited "The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories" and "Canadian short stories, fourth series." His efforts have helped bring many important voices in Canadian literature to a wider audience.