Margaret
Atwood reads at Gemini Ink
Fall 2003 Autograph Series
SAN ANTONIO - Gemini
Ink is pleased to announce internationally acclaimed
author Margaret Atwood as its Fall 2003 Autograph
Series reader. She will give a public reading on Thursday,
October 16, at 7 p.m. at the Charline McCombs Empire
Theatre, 226 N. St. Mary's Street. The event is free
and open to the public. For more information, call
Gemini Ink at (210) 734-9673.
A noon benefit luncheon honoring Atwood will follow
on Friday, October 17; the event will be held at the
Bright Shawl, 819 Augusta Street. Tickets for the
luncheon program are $50. Atwood will complete her
stay in San Antonio by teaching a class in fiction,
Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. For luncheon
invitations and more information, contact Gemini Ink.
Throughout her 30 years of writing, Atwood has received
numerous awards and several honorary degrees. She
is the author of more than 30 volumes of poetry, fiction,
and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels,
which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's
Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), and Alias Grace
(1996). Her most recent novel, The Blind Assassin,
won the 2000 Booker Prize. Her latest work of nonfiction,
Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002),
was published by Cambridge University Press in March
2002. In April 2003, her 11th novel, Oryx and Crake,
was released to great acclaim.
Atwood has an uncanny knack for writing books that
anticipate the popular preoccupations of her public.
Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal
and worldly problems of universal concern, her work
has been published in more than 30 languages, including
Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic,
and Estonian. Atwood currently lives in Toronto with
novelist Graeme Gibson.
Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern
Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate
degree from Victoria College at the University of
Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Gemini Ink, San Antonio's only independent literary
center, celebrates the art in literature by offering
university- and master-level classes, Dramatic Reader's
Theater presentations, and Writers in Communities
programs that bring literature and literacy to disadvantaged
groups. Gemini Ink won the 2002 Downtown Alliance
Award for Best Arts & Cultural Program and was
recently featured in The New York Times.
