Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. As a teenager she battled anorexia. After attending Streatham & Clapham High School, in south London, she began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. Carter attended the University of... Bristol where she studied English literature. She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. They separated in 1970. In 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised.
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| Birthdate: | May 7, 1940 |
| Birthplace: | Eastbourne |
| Date of death: | February 16, 1992 |
| Religion: | Atheism |
| Also known as: | Angela Olive Stalker Carter, Angela Olive Stalker |