Each writer centers her eloquence on this simple symbol. Patti Smith's melancholy flow Woolgathering, spins a few nothings into a meditative work of emotional expressionism. Apropos of nothing, Agatha Christie once compared the incisive daydreams of Miss Marple to a process of "gathering wool." What a tremendous phrase, it made me gather a few more bits of wool: writer and teacher Anne Lamott also uses woolgathering to describe a daydream-like state that allows the subconscious to germinate creative ideas. This sweet little gem typing away - a bit of strychnine here, some mild garroting there - she heads to afternoon tea, bodies prostrate in her wake.
From the Hardcover edition.A few streets from our home in London lived one of the most prolific murderers in history. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson. She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. Her most recent books of fiction are The Penelopiad, The Tent, and Moral Disorder. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye - both shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Robber Bride, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Oryx and Crake, a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Orange Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. She is the author of more than forty books - novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto.
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