I second this. It's my impression that Margaret Atwood is an amazing writer who doesn't get enough love in the American academy (The Handmaid's Tale is sometimes assigned in themed English classes, but that's about it), and I suspect this has something to do with the facts that (a) she writes speculative fiction and (B) she doesn't aggressively self-identify as a "feminist" writer. I'm a newcomer to this thread, and I just want to say that calculating odds of Nobel Prize winners is the most geeky and wonderful thing ever.
