Margaret Atwood
Novelist, poet and critic
Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
When were you happiest?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗
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