Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7pm, Music Building, $20

M a r g a r e t   A t w o o d  
with Leonard Lopate

Margaret Atwood is a recipient of the Booker Prize, England’s highest literary honor, and a two-time recipient of the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary honor. She is the author of many novels and collections of stories, including Surfacing, The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Wilderness Tips, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, Moral Disorder, and, most recently, The Year of the Flood, which is forthcoming in the fall of 2009. John Updike, writing in The New Yorker, has said: “Atwood is a poet…as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous…opulent…brilliant.” The Times-Picayune has said: “Atwood achieves an almost impossible combination—a hall of mirrors, with cutting insights at every turn, cloaked in a dreamy, all-enveloping atmosphere that seduces the reader with every sentence.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has said: “Margaret Atwood is one of the greatest writers alive…. [Her] style is tight, authoritative and as glittering and hard as a diamond…. Atwood’s…work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch has said: “[Atwood] has grown into one of the most consistently imaginative and masterful fiction writers writing in English today.”

In addition to reading from her work, Ms. Atwood will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.

photo of Margaret Atwood: George Whiteside