Author, journalist, and professor Angela Carter was born Angela Olive Stalker on May 7, 1940 in Sussex, England. When World War II broke out, she moved to her grandmother's house in Yorkshire, where she lived out the rest of the war. She married Paul Carter in 1960 at the age of twenty, after which she earned a degree in English with a specialty in medieval literature at the University of Bristol. In 1966, Carter published her first novel, Shadow Dance, and a year later, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her second novel, The Magic Toyshop. After publishing her third and fourth novels, Several Perceptions and Heroes and Villains, Carter worked as a reporter in Japan for three years....
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