Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. She has won several accolades and honorary degrees and has published more than thirty collections of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and nonfiction. She is best known for her novels which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her recent sequel to her iconic novel The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and became an enormous success, coming at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and winning the 2019 Man Booker prize.