At the age of 85, Margaret Atwood’s books are increasingly being banned, including her dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Atwood tells her story, Sunday on 60 Minutes. 60Minutes.com | 60 Minutes

Author Margaret Atwood shows 60 Minutes the folders of research and news clippings she collected to substantiate her plots. She writes by a strict rule: if it didn’t happen, somewhere, at some time, it doesn’t make it into the pages of her fiction. She showed 60 Minutes an article that helped inspire her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” It reads: “Women forced to have babies… Persistent non-pregnancy will be considered a crime against the state.” In Atwood’s dystopian book, a dwindling number of fer

Margaret Atwood, author of 64 books including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has seen her work banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian. | 60 Minutes