This Day in Halloween: Feminist fantasy writer and poet Angela Carter is born in Eastbourne, England in 1940. / Photo courtesy the Fay Godwin Archive at the British Library
Angela Carter is born in Eastbourne, England in 1940. The feminist fantasy novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist is best known as the author of The Bloody Chamber and The Company of Wolves and is considered one of Britain’s greatest modern writers. She died in 1992.
