LITERATURE + LECTURES

Inprint presents the 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Monday, January 23, 2012 the series features Margaret Atwood, in the Cullen Theater, Wortham Center.

MARGARET ATWOOD, one of the world’s most celebrated writers and the author of more than 40 books, has been writing for five decades and is an internationally renowned novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. Her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, recipient of the 2000 Man Booker Prize—a prize for which she has received five nominations—was described by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as “hauntingly powerful.... A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters...so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent,” and Newsday called it “the first great novel of the new millennium.” Her work, crossing many subject lines and portraying strong female characters, has been published in 40 languages and also includes The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and Oryx and Crake.

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times says her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, the sequel to Oryx and Crake in the MaddAddam trilogy, is “[written with] energy, inventiveness, and narrative panache. . . . A gripping and visceral book that showcases [Atwood’s] pure storytelling talents.” The Kansas City Star says, “Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a post-apocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet.”