On the Occasion of Margaret Atwood Day, Here Are Some Photos of Her Over the Years

Well, today is the day you’ve all been waiting for: Margaret Atwood’s hotly hyped, closely guarded, imperfectly embargoed, Booker-shortlisted The Testaments is on the bookstore shelves. For the superfans among you, we’ve collected a selection of photographs of Atwood below, from childhood to the relative, semi-dystopian present.

(Honestly, ride around long enough on Canadian public transit and you’re likely to find a similar collection of photos in a box, but we couldn’t resist!)

Margaret on the beach, making sand castles, 1941.

Margaret on the dock in a very good cardigan, 1942.

Getting tinder set by a northern lake; with brother and sister, 1954.

Considering the evening’s dinner, circa 1946.

Artfully posed in Montreal, 1967.

Exquisitely attired in red on the Harvard campus, circa 1961.

Unimpressed by Niagara Falls.

Killing time at the cottage.

With Graeme Gibson in the 1970s.

Signing books  on the Bodily Harm Tour, 1981.

With Graeme and daughter Jess, circa 1978.

Writers do, indeed, have to write.

Two icons meet in the 1980s.

Keeping warm with Graeme.