On August 2, 2024, the Utah State School Board released its first list of objectionable books. One book on this list was penned by Atwood (Oryx and Crake).

Graeme Gibson, Atwood's partner, died on September 18, 2019, after suffering from dementia.

Atwood formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976.

Atwood was a writer in residence at the University of Toronto during the 1972/1973 academic year.

Atwood divorced Jim Polk in 1973.

While continuing to write, Atwood was a lecturer in English at the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1970.

Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, was published in 1969.

Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968.

While continuing to write, Atwood was a lecturer in English at the Sir George Williams University in Montreal from 1967 to 1968.

In 1966, The Circle Game was published, winning the Governor General's Award.

While continuing to write, Atwood was a lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from 1964 to 1965.

She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962.

Margaret Atwood has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction since 1961.

Atwood graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French.

In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This marks the beginning of the life of a significant figure in Canadian and world literature. She is the second of three children of Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist, and Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia.