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Your Favorite Women Writers

We asked. You answered. Here are some of Oprah.com readers' favorite contemporary women writers!
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

An author, poet, critic, essayist, feminist and social campaigner, Margaret Atwood began writing at age 6 and hasn't stopped since. Perhaps best known for her novels and short fiction, she also has 17 books of poetry under her belt. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, she was short-listed for the Booker Prize six times, winning once, and has twice won the Governor General's Award.


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Published on February 26, 2010
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