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was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939. Because her father was a forest entomologist, Atwood spent most of her childhood living in the Canadian wilderness. During the eight months of each year that her father did insect research in the forest, the Atwood family lived in "a cabin with a wood stove and several ke ....

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.... (qtd. in "Author Profile"). Ten years later, Atwood decided that she onlywanted to write. She wanted "to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to knowpeople in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised...to give back something of what [I have] received" (qtd. in "Author Profile"). Two years after this life-altering decision, Atwood entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received her bachelor's degree from Victoria College in ....