During this time, she also settled down with Mark Pearce, with whom she had a child, Alexander, in 1983. Between 19, Carter taught at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She divorced her husband and the literary work that followed divided critics and moved away from the constraints of realism. The visit to Japan marked a turning point in her writing and her life. After publishing her third and fourth novels, Several Perceptions (1968) and Heroes and Villains (1968), the promising author won the Somerset Maugham Award, which funds young writers to travel, and worked as a reporter in Japan for three years. 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 (1967). She married her first husband, Paul Carter, in 1960, and by 1965, she earned a degree in English with a specialty in medieval literature at the University of Bristol. Her first employment was with Croydon Advertiser, where she was hired as a journalist.
During the Second World War, she lived in Yorkshire with her grandmother, who used to tell her stories. She died in February 1992.Angela Carter (1940-1992) was a British author, journalist, and professor.
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). Four collections of her short stories have been published: Fireworks (1974), The Bloody Chamber (1979, Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award), Black Venus (1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993). Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by The Magic Toyshop (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Several Perceptions (1968, Somerset Maugham Award), Heroes and Villains (1969), Love (1971), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), The Passion of New Eve (1977), Nights at the Circus (1984, James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and Wise Children (1991).
She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. She read English at Bristol University, and from 1976-8 was a fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield University.
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