Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. November 18, 1939
Birthday: November 18
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
source: Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press
topic: Football, Games, Six Months, Ottawa, General Hospital