Edmund Gordon.
EDMUND GORDON
the INVENTION OF ANGELA CARTER (2016)
Winner of Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize.
A Book of the Year at the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer.
Angela Carter (born 1940) was one of the most remarkable writers of the 20th century, her work exemplifying the bawdy, absurd, and fantastic. After escaping a repressive childhood and an unsuccessful early marriage, she spent several years exploring the USA in a Greyhound bus and living in Tokyo. Her most famous works include The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. She died of lung cancer, at the age of 51, in 1992.
Edmund Gordon’s biography is based on unrestricted access to her papers, and on many interviews with family and friends. The Spectator wrote of the book: "Splendid…this is an exemplary piece of work…which will satisfy readers, and on which further investigation can rest with great confidence that nothing has been concealed and no pathway has been neglected. Everyone should read it."
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Edmund Gordon is Reader in Creative and Critical Writing at King’s College London. He writes in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Observer. He took his undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin and his master’s degree at University College London.
