Wanna attend one or more of the upcoming Margaret Atwood lectures at Emory?  Here’s all the info you need from Emory’s website…

Tickets to hear lectures by celebrated author Margaret Atwood, who will deliver the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature Oct. 24-26, are now available.

Tickets are free, but required, to attend any of the events in the lecture series during Atwood’s visit. Tickets must be picked up from the Arts at Emory Box Office in the Schwartz Center, 1700 N. Decatur Rd. Tickets are limited to two per person per event. For more information about tickets, call the box office at 404.727.5050.

The Canadian scholar and author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985) and other notable works will present three original lectures for the Ellmann series.

The first lecture, “Flying Rabbits” will be Oct. 24, at 4 p.m. The second, “Burning Bushes,” is set for Oct. 25, at 8:15 p.m. The third, “Dire Cartographies,” on Oct. 26, at 4 p.m., concludes with a book reading and signing at 8:15 p.m.

All the Ellmann events will be held in Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N.Decatur Rd.

From an Emory news release…

Renowned author Margaret Atwood will deliver the 2010 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University Oct. 24-26. The events are free and open to the public.

Among her many notable works are the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985), “The Robber Bride” (1993), “The Blind Assassin” (2000), and “Oryx and Crake” (2003) and most recently “The Year of the Flood” (2009). In addition to her novels, she is the author of short fiction such as “Moral Disorder and Other Stories” (2006), more than a dozen books of poetry, six children’s books, and works of non-fiction and edited anthologies. Beyond her distinguished literary oeuvre, Atwood also is widely noted as a campaigner for the environment and theorist of Canadian identity and culture.

Her many awards make Atwood one of the most celebrated authors of our time. She is a winner of the Booker Prize (shortlisted five times), twice a winner of the Governor General’s Award, a winner of the Arthur C. Clark Award, as well as the recipient of numerous other honors.

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