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The Handmaid's Tale: Biography: Margaret Atwood A novelist, poet and critic, Margaret Atwood is one of North America's leading contemporary writers. She is the author of more than thirty books and her work has been published in more than twenty-five countries.

In the winter of –24 Gertrud Arndt (née Hantschk), then age twenty, enrolled at the Bauhaus with plans to study architecture. She had just completed an apprenticeship in an architectural office in Erfurt, where she had taught herself photography and used her own camera to document local buildings.