Angela Carter
I chose to write about Angela Carter. I recognized the name of this author but didn’t clearly know who it was. After reading the first couple of sentences of her conversation with Anna Katsavos I quickly learned she was a down-to-earth, friendly, humorous, writer and mother. This sparked my interest with her, and made me overall chose her.
Angela Carter was born on May 7, 1940 in Sussex, England. She attended the University of Bristol where she obtained a degree in English with a specially in medieval literature. Angela published her first novel at the age of 26, Shadow Dance. She would publish three more novels before she began to work as a reporter in Japan for three years. Angela started to publish short stories in 1974 when she published, Fireworks. She started writing for New Society, about a year after this. Angela wrote critical work and taught at Brown University starting in the late 1970s. Angela’s last novel was, Wise Children, published in 1991. Unfortunately, this was the same year she was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away in 1992, at 52 years old.
Angela Carter published many pieces of writing throughout her life. These pieces include,
- Shadow Dance (1966)
- The Magic Toyshop (1967)
- Several Perceptions (1968)
- Heroes and Villains (1969)
- Love (1971)
- The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
- The Sadeian Woman (1978)
- The Bloody Chamber (1979)
- Nothing Sacred (1982)
- Nights at the Circus (1984)
- Black Venus (1985)
- Come unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays. (1985)
- The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990)
- Wise Children (1991)
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