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The Writers' Union is a refuge — an occasional one to be sure, but a kind of home nonetheless — for a lot of people who practise an often solitary craft. It's a place populated by people who tend to understand what that's like.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 and has degrees from the University of Toronto and Radcliffe College, and has lived in many places, including Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, Boston, England, Scotland, and France. She supported her word habit with many non-writing jobs in youth, but has been a full-time writer since 1972--fiction, screenplays, poetry, non-fiction--with short interludes of guest teaching here and there. She was chair of The Writers' Union in 1981-82, and president of PEN Canada in 1985 and 1986. She is currently working on a novel.
