Oryx and Crake Book Review Margaret Atwood began writing in early childhood and by mid adolescence she knew that she definitely wanted to be a writer Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 Her father was an entomologist and eight months of each year he did insect research in the forest so she spent part of her childhood living in the wilderness of northern Quebec The novel was published in 2003 during the time when SARS was overspreading the world The book got extra attention and immediatel