Acclaimed Author Margaret Atwood to Present Lecture Nov. 14

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Margaret Atwood, award-winning author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and other literary works, will present a lecture at the Bama Theatre Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m.

The lecture, which will be followed by a book signing, is presented by the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series in The University of Alabama’s program in creative writing.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets may be claimed online via Brown Paper Tickets beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Atwood has won many international literary awards, including the prestigious Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General’s Award, the PEN Pinter Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She is the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction.

In 2017, she will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. She is perhaps best known for her novels, which include “The Edible Woman,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Robber Bride,” “Alias Grace,” “The Blind Assassin,” “Oryx and Crake“ and “The Year of the Flood.”

Atwood’s work has been published in more than 40 languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004, she co-invented the LongPen, a remote signing device that allows someone to write in ink anywhere in the world via tablet PC and the internet. She is a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada and a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.