Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood started writing at the tender age of 5. In university, she self-published her first book of poems and won her first Governor General's Award in her 20's. Margaret is best-known for her novels like 'Surfacing,' 'A Handmaid's Tale,' and 'Oryx and Crake.' But she's also written essays, satire, kid's books, operas, and cartoons. She's also won almost every major literary award under the sun. In her latest book, Margaret tackles the subject of debt. She started working on it back in 2005 - when we are all living high and it hit stores just weeks after the financial crisis kicked in last fall. It's called 'Payback - Debt and The Shadow Side of Wealth.'