Margaret Atwood: 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' (1994) BIOGRAPHY • Born in Ottawa, Ontario, 1939 • Studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962 • Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes shor...

The Effects of Satire Often authors use satire to put a point across in their writing. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury; and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood are all good examples of such satire. Each of these authors mock society in the way they feel it will ...