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Angela Carter ( May 7 , 1940 – February 16 , 1992 ) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her Post-feminist Magical Realist works. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne , in 1940 , she at first worked as a Journalist on the '' Croydon Advertiser ''. She married twice, leaving her first husband using the proceeds of the Somerset Maugham Award for literature and spending two years living in Tokyo . She then explored the United States , Asia and Europe . She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University Of Sheffield , Brown University , the University Of Adelaide and the University Of East Anglia . Carter also contributed many articles to '' The Guardian '', '' The Independent '' and '' New Statesman ''. To date two films, '' The Company Of Wolves '' ( 1984 ) and '' The Magic Toyshop '' ( 1987 ), have adapted her work. She wrote the scripts to both productions. The collection, ''The Curious Room'', contains the scripts to both adaptations. Angela Carter died in 1992 after developing cancer. WORKS AS AUTHOR Novels Short Fiction Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces Black Venus American Ghosts and Old World Wonders Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories Dramatic Works Come Unto These Golden Sands: Four Radio Plays The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera Children's Books The Donkey Prince Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady Comic and Curious Cats The Music People Moonshadow Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales Sea-Cat and Dragon King Non-fiction The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writing WORKS AS EDITOR
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