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For a literary saint, author Margaret Atwood can sure hold a grudge
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Margaret Atwood's work has been adapted into ballet, opera, film and television, including an award-winning television series based on The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Alexandra Alter
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TORONTO - Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood doesn’t like being called a prophet.
“Calm down, folks,” was the withering response when I asked why her fiction often seems eerily predictive. “If I could really do this, I would have cornered the stock market a long time ago.”

