Possible Clues:

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' author
• Novelist Margaret
• ''The Handmaid's Tale'' author
• "The Handmaid's Tale" novelist Margaret
• Margaret ____ (Canadian literary doyen)
• Writer holding court in a study regularly
• Margaret ..., best-selling Canadian author
• "Alias Grace" author Margaret
• ''The Blind Assassin'' novelist
• "The Testaments" novelist Margaret