Angela Carter was born in 1940. She read English at Bristol University, and from 1976-8 was a fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield University. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, " Shadow Dance ", was published in 1965, followed by " The Magic Toysho " p (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), " Several Perceptions " (1968, Somerset Maugham Award), " Heroes and Villains " (1969), Love (1971), " The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hofman " (1972), " The Passion of New Eve " (1977), " Nights at the Circus " (1984, James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and " Wise Children " (1991).
Four collections of her short stories have been published : " Fireworks " (1974), " The Bloody Chambe " r (1979, Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award), " Black Venus " (1985) and " American Ghosts and Old World Wonders " (1993). She was the author of " The Sadeian Woman : An Exercise in Cultural History " (1979), and two collections of journalism, " Nothing Sacred " (1982) and " Expletives Deleted " (1992).
She died in February 1992.