You're an 85-year-old titan of literature, have been for a half century now. You're Canada's best known author, 64 books in counting. And increasingly, you find your work on lists of banned books scrubbed from 135 American school districts.Yes, that includes your breakthrough work, the dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. But you've also been censored for work like The Testaments and The Blind Assassin, both of which won the Booker Prize, the top award for English language fiction. What to do.Sure, you tak ...

60 Minutes Overtime. >> This week on 60 Minutes, we sit down with Canada's best known author, Margaret Atwood. Now 85, she has published 64 books in counting, including the bestselling The Handmaid's Tale.>> Under his eye. >> Under his eye. Published in 1985, The Handmaid's Tale depicts a near future America overtaken by religious dictatorship, where a dwindling number of fertile women are forced to cloak themselves in red and bear children for the elite.The book would sell more than 10 million copies and s ...

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