Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood [93]
Some of these stories have appeared in the following magazines:
“The Bad News”: The Guardian, 2005; Playboy, 2006.
“The Art of Cooking and Serving”: Toronto Life, 2005; New Statesman, 2005.
“The Entities”: Toronto Life, 2006.
“The Labrador Fiasco” first appeared, in a slightly different form, as a Bloomsbury Quid in 1996. The true story related within this story may be found in its original version in The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace, published in 1905 by Fleming H. Revell Company, and reprinted by Breakwater Books, Newfoundland, in 1977.
“The Boys at the Lab”: Zoetrope: All-Story, 2006.
The title of this book, Moral Disorder, was the title of the novel Graeme Gibson was writing in 1996, when he decided to stop writing novels. I use it here with his kind permission.
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye – both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and Oryx and Crake, a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Orange Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent books of fiction are The Tent, Moral Disorder, and The Year of the Flood.
Atwood is the recipient of numerous honours such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., and Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from the University of Oxford in England.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.