Photo of Margaret Atwood, credited to Jean Malek. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays including "The Year of the Flood" (2009), the second book in the MaddAddam trilogy, the first being "Oryx and Crake". She has won over 100 awards worldwide, the most recent being the Los AngelesTimes Innovator's Award (2013).