Sarah Gadon, who plays the titular character in Alias Grace, once thought Margaret Atwood's novels were "too aggressive" and that "we're beyond this," she told Entertainment Tonight ahead of the ...

It's not obvious that both the Hulu hit "The Handmaid's Tale" and Netflix's new miniseries "Alias Grace" are based on books by the same author, Margaret Atwood. Rather than a stylized dystopian ...

Sarah Gadon as Grace Marks in “Alias Grace.” Jan Thijs/Netflix. The details around Marks's trial and confession are all accurate. Susanna Moodie's 1853 book Life in the Clearings Versus the ...

The story behind 'Alias Grace' – how Sarah Polley's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 19th-century true-crime novel became the most relevant show on TV.

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, was convicted of the brutal murders of ...

As a result, Alias Grace is grounded in as much truth as she could find — the newspaper quotes and excerpts at the beginning of the book chapters were taken from real sources.

Sarah Polley wrote to the novelist seeking the movie rights to her book ‘Alias Grace’ 20 years ago and is now the writer and a producer of the mini-series adaptation of the Booker Prize ...

Books · Canadian Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood's novel, which was inspired by true events, won the Giller Prize in 1996. Margaret Atwood. CBC Books · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2017 2:52 PM EST ...

With high-profile TV adaptations of "Alias Grace" and "The Handmaid’s Tale, author Margaret Atwood is a literary force to be reckoned with.

A new miniseries called “Alias Grace” is now available to stream on Netflix, and it’s based on a book by the same author as “The Handmaid’s Tale”: Margaret Atwood.