HUGE FAN BASE: Following the blockbuster success of The Testaments and the publication of Burning Questions, Atwood’s profile has never been higher.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED: Of the ten stories, five have been published before in some form: “Old Babes in the Wood” (New Yorker); “Impatient Griselda” (New York Times Magazine); “Two Scorched Men” (Scribd); and “Morte de Smudgie” (Arion Press).

ATWOOD’S HOME: Atwood is a true literary powerhouse, and she’s proud to call M&S her Canadian publishing home.

MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include The Testaments, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the  Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto.

Author Residence: Toronto, ON

“This is Atwood. This is our four-faced Janus, who’s got one face turned to the past, one to the present, one to the future and the fourth inside a spaceship, telling stories about eating horses. Long may she reign.”
—New York Times

“Atwood is a literary writer who entirely sees the point of science fiction, and her speculative instincts are on show in several of the stories here.”
—The Guardian

“[Old Babes in the Wood] exhibits Atwood’s sheer imaginative range—imaginative in both the malleability of her language and her seemingly inexhaustible capacity to envision alternative worlds or to see our own aslant.[…] Old Babes in the Wood is further evidence of a writer in full possession of her powers. Atwood will never struggle to find readers, but this collection really is worth their attention.” —Financial Times