Angela Carter

Angela Carter (born May 7, 1940, Eastbourne, Sussex, Eng.—died Feb. 16, 1992, London) was a British author who reshaped motifs from mythology, legends, and fairy tales in her books, lending them a ghastly humour and eroticism. Carter rejected an Oxford education to work as a journalist with the Croydon Advertiser, but she later studied medieval literature at the University of Bristol (B.A., 1965). She had moderate success with her novels Shadow Dance (1966; also published...