Tag: Carl Atwood


  • Book Of Lives by Margaret Atwood tells of her life, surrounding by loves of her grandparents, parents, siblings, relatives, friends, and acquaintances. The author’s parents are Carl Atwood and Margaret Killam Atwood. Her maternal grandparents are Dr. Harold Killam and Margaret Killam. Her paternal grandparents are Mr. Atwood and Mrs Atwood. The author, M Atwood,…

  • This post is entered into #AtoZChallenge2026 April blogging, as its topic centers on A for Atwood. As mentioned in my #atozChallengeThemeReveal post, my main theme is book reviews and its subsidiary is miscellaneous topics. I’ll add that comprises of haiku and art. I had prepared a series of drawings on A to Z but had…

  • Carl Atwood used to love playing his violin, but stopped After Carl Atwood (Margaret Atwood’s father) attended his first professional music performance, he stopped performing with his fiddle. He didn’t speak about it but his daughter Margaret wrote in her book that she guessed he felt he wasn’t up to the mark. He compared his…

  • Margaret Atwood’s dad probably has prior knowledge of building cabins. We can learn how to build log cabins by reading a book. This is the most popular and widely purchased book on Amazon, as of Jan 1 2026. Prefab cabin link. I read about Margaret’s dad, Carl Atwood, building cabins and houses, in rural areas,…

  • Carl Atwood specialized in “three insects that caused large boreal-forest infestations – spruce budworm, eastern tent caterpillar, and sawfly …” (Atwood, p. 24) Margaret Atwood wrote her Book Of Lives, a memoir, to talk about her grandparents, parents, brother, sister-in-law, sister, teachers, the publishing industry, friends, enemies, boyfriends, ex-husband and partner. It is a very…

  • In Margaret Atwood’s memoir Book Of Lives, she details her life, as well as of those lives surrounding hers. Lives of her grandparents, parents, siblings, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Atwood’s dad, Carl Atwood was an entomologist. He specialized in insects and lived right next to nature for convenience. When the author was young, she met…