Boston, Massachusetts

Margaret was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and attended Harvard in 1961, where she earned her master’s degree in English Literature. The Handmaid’s Tale, which Atwood wrote 25 years later, was set on the Harvard campus.

Margaret’s first book of poetry, The Circle Game, was published when she was at Harvard, which won the 1966 Governor General’s Award.

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“Peggy and I were kids together. We were both from odd places. She was a wild Canadian girl and I was from the Bush of Montana, the badlands, and we were fish out of water. I didn’t know where I was and neither did she, but we clicked.”

— Jim Polk

“I was looking for a roommate and a place to live and she answered the ad. My initial impression, Gosh, she’s really mousy, very quiet, kind of nerdy girl. It turned out she wasn’t quiet. She was very lively, in fact, and quite forbearing.”

— Susan Milmoe

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Boston, Massachusetts

Margaret was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and attended Harvard in 1961, where she earned her master’s degree in English Literature. The Handmaid’s Tale, which Atwood wrote 25 years later, was set on the Harvard campus.

Margaret’s first book of poetry, The Circle Game, was published when she was at Harvard, which won the 1966 Governor General’s Award.

Visit

• Harvard• Walking Tour ofThe Handmaid’s Tale

Support

• Boston Lyric Opera

Watch ExcerptsFrom The Film

The Riverside Rowing Team on the Charles River pass under the Weeks Bridge, as Tatiana Maslany reads an excerpt from the Handmaid’s Tale.

• Harvard
• Walking Tour of
The Handmaid’s Tale

Watch Excerpts
From The Film

The Riverside Rowing Team on the Charles River pass under the Weeks Bridge,
as Tatiana Maslany reads an excerpt from the Handmaid’s Tale.