the British writer Angela Carter replied when approached with the prospect of a biography while she was still in her 40s. Just a few years later, she was so famous the question seemed ridiculous ...

It’s impossible to know what the brilliant British writer Angela Carter would have thought of any biography of her life, let alone Edmund Gordon’s meticulous but at times exhausting The ...

I loved it then, and still do. Nonetheless, Edmund Gordon's "The Invention of Angela Carter," while an exceptionally thoughtful and engrossing biography, has left me wondering whether it's such a ...

This is the Carter that comes through in Edmund Gordon’s The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography. Gordon’s biography, the first in-depth treatment of Carter’s life, is both thorough and ...

1 Reviewed The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography By Edmund Gordon The spell isn’t broken until the story’s final pages. In the 17-century version of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault ...

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography. By Edmund Gordon. Chatto & Windus; 525 pages; £25. To be published in America by Oxford University Press in March. READERS and critics have tended to ...

The English novelist Angela Carter is best known for her 1979 book ... The first thorough account of Carter’s life, it is an authorized biography—Gordon had the coöperation of Carter ...

The first biographical work about novelist Angela Carter will be published in February 2012, the 20th anniversary of her death. The writer—author of such hugely admired and widely studied works ...