Surfacing Resources

In addition to Twitter, you can keep up with Atwood on her Web site.

Well, probably not, but Atwood wrote one of the fundamental texts theorizing Canadian literature.

In 3-D! Nope, just kidding. There is a movie version, though.

Author Jill Dawson offers her perspectives on Surfacing and its legacy 30 years after it was written.

Read Oates's take on Surfacing and other Atwood novels.

In addition to writing novels, literary criticism, and an opera, she's also a poet. Watch her read some of her stuff for the CBC as a young author.

Atwood was once President of PEN Canada, an organization devoted to writers' rights to free expression.

Listen to Margaret Atwood discuss her theories about Canadian Literature with the CBC.

"The Quiet Mata Hari" (can we get that nickname?) talks about the distinction between poetry and prose.

Listen as fellow author Graeme Gibson interviews Atwood about writing in an old CBC piece.

In Northern Quebec (where the novel is set), Atwood (as a child) watches her father build a fire.

Another blast from the past: A young Atwood hangs out in a cabin with her siblings.

Here's the author today(ish).