Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power

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The recent success of the television adaptation of her novel The Handmaid's Tale has made Margaret Atwood a household name. Who is the woman and writer behind these stories? How does she always seem to know what the future holds?
Margaret Atwood is a household name. Millions of readers worldwide know her books cover to cover, but few know the woman behind these stories. For a year, directors Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont and their film crew kept pace with Atwood and her late partner, Graeme Gibson, as they travelled to speaking engagements, spent time with family, and visited the set of The Handmaid's Tale, the wildly popular TV series adapted from Atwood's 1985 novel. With personal stories shared by friends, family, and Atwood herself, the film also explores her upbringing in the Canadian wilderness and her early years as a poet, and provides a rare glimpse into the writer's practice as she completes the final chapters of her latest work, The Testaments.