Trivia Eh? Born November 18, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario. Full name: Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood She is the middle of three children. (an older brother and a younger sister) She was home schooled until eighth grade (she skipped 7th) Attended University in Toronto and earned her Masters …
Authors
Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch is known by children everywhere. He is one of the most successful and interesting Canadian children's authors, so I was surprised to discover that he was not born Canadian. He currently has about 35 books in print. My children's favourite was 'Something Good'. Munsch's books have …
Margaret Atwood
"I was born on November 18, 1939, in the Ottawa General Hospital, two and a half months after the beginning of the Second World War. Being born at the beginning of the war gave me a substratum of anxiety and dread to draw on, which is very useful to a poet. It also meant that I was malnourished. …