Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This author outlined four "victim positions" characteristic of a certain country's literature in Survival. In a novel by this author, Simon Jordan investigates the title character, who was institutionalized after allegedly murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear. Newspaper clippings and excerpts from a fictional pulp novel about the planet Zycron punctuate a novel by this author about Alex Thomas, Richard (*) Griffen, and Iris and Laura Chase. This author of Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin penned a novel set in the theocratic Republic of Gilead, in which increasing sterility causes men like the Commander to employ concubines like Offred, the title character. For 10 points, name this female Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale.
A:
Literature