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When Atwood and other core members of the SLA were killed in 1974 during a standoff with police near Watts, California following their murder of the Oakland school superintendent, the Soliahs organized memorial rallies, including a rally in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park where Soliah spoke in support of her friend Atwood, while being covertly filmed by the FBI.
In June 2011, Margaret Atwood was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature ( honoris causa ) from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon after and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.
Atwood claims that this concept is ingrained in the human psyche, that it is apparent in early historical peoples, who associated their understanding of debt with that of justice, ideas that are typically exemplified by a female deity.
Margaret Atwood is part of a long line of women with feminist involvement: she is related to Mary Webster, who survived being hanged for witchcraft in Connecticut in the seventeenth century.
Still, Atwood denies that The Edible Woman, for example, published in 1969 and coinciding with the early second wave of the feminist movement, is feminist and claims that she wrote it four years before the movement.
Despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, and a request to boycott from PACBI Atwood visited Israel and accepted the $ 1, 000, 000 Dan David Prize along with Indian author Amitav Ghosh at Tel Aviv University in May 2010.
During this innovative book tour, Atwood created a theatrical version of her novel, with performers borrowed from the local areas she was visiting.
* An interview with Margaret Atwood, Narrative Magazine, ( Fall 2010 ).
The Atwood Grove became the largest grapefruit grove in the world, with an annual production of 80, 000 boxes of fruit.
), a poetic tribute to bissett with contributions from more than 80 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, Steve McCaffery, P. K. Page and Darren Wershler-Henry.
Atwood was a lumber settlement with a post office operating from 1868 until 1905.
Population growth in the community near the Atwood farm brought a Post Office designation January 23, 1897, with Newburg as the assigned name and Henry S. Halloway established as Postmaster.
Stevens hired Margaret Atwood, daughter of Anchorage Times publisher Robert Atwood, who was chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee, to work with him in the Interior Department.
In the 1990s a British publisher bracketed Turow ’ s work with that of Margaret Atwood and John Irving, republished in the series Bloomsbury Modern Library.
Griffin served as its Chairman, with Trustees Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and David Young.
* The actress and stage director Edith Craig who lived with and was in a relationship with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the artist Clare Atwood from 1916 to 1947.
The novel, like other works by Atwood, deals with power struggles between men and women ; it is also a meditation on the nature of friendship, power, and trust between women.
Atwood claims that of all the characters she has written, she identifies most " with Zenia.
The Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is also a post-colonial writer who dealt with themes of identity-seeking through her Southern Ontario Gothic style of writing.
* Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing: Margaret Atwood

Atwood and rise
This novel's publication coincided with the rise of the women's movement in North America, but is described by Atwood as " protofeminist " because it was written in 1965 and thus anticipated second wave feminism.
A recent reissue of Paul Britten Austin's translation of Doktor Glas into English, as Doctor Glas, and with a perceptive introduction by Margaret Atwood, has meant a rise in his popularity in the Anglo-Saxon literary world.

Atwood and especially
Arguably, the best-known living Canadian writer internationally ( especially since the deaths of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler ) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Atwood and system
However, Jeff Atwood points out that this attack is merely theoretical — there was no evidence by 2006 that any spammer had ever built such a system.
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood tells the tale of a woman caught up in a fundamentalist Christian dictatorship where women are forced into a system of sexual slavery for the ruling patriarchy.

Atwood and has
Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines.
Atwood was at one time offended at the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake were science fiction, insisting to The Guardian that they were speculative fiction instead: " Science fiction has monsters and spaceships ; speculative fiction could really happen.
Atwood has since said that she does at times write social science fiction and that Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake can be designated as such.
More recently, Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature ( 1995 ).
Margaret Atwood has repeatedly made observations about our relationships to animals in her works.
Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she and her partner are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International.
Atwood has won more than 55 awards in Canada and internationally, including:
Atwood has a rich cultural history.
The district has two schools in Atwood:
Over the years, the Review has featured reviews and articles by such writers and thinkers as Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret Atwood, Russell Baker, Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Harold Bloom, Joseph Brodsky, Noam Chomsky, J. M. Coetzee, Frederick Crews, Ronald Dworkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Murray Kempton, Richard Lewontin, Alison Lurie, Peter Medawar, Daniel Mendelsohn, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Peter G. Peterson, Nathaniel Rich, John Searle, Zadie Smith, I. F. Stone, Desmond Tutu, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills and Tony Judt.
The contract has now changed: even though Atwood had hired Joubert to terminate Turner before, Atwood's superiors have now hired Joubert to terminate Atwood.
In the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the United States has been replaced by a theocratic totalitarian nation, the " Republic of Gilead.
An elevator with a counterbalance approximates an ideal Atwood machine and thereby relieves the driving motor from the load of holding the elevator cab — it has to overcome only weight difference and inertia of the two masses.
She takes an immediate dislike to newcomer Ryan Atwood, barely acknowledging the fact that he has saved her daughter's life.
Atwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002, Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006, and Alice in Wonderland in 2011.
Atwood has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.
Atwood has been partially involved in developing or has been the lead designer for producing the costumes on over 50 films to date.
The Writer's Voice has also welcomed such authors as Joyce Carol Oates ( 2000 ), Margaret Atwood ( 2003 ), Amy Tan ( 2007 ), and Azar Nafisi ( 2008 ).
However, in Alias Grace Atwood says that she has changed her opinion on the question of Marks ' culpability.
However, Atwood has rarely, if ever, commented on the similarities directly.

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