Language English Role Historian Name Miranda Carter | Alma mater Oxford University Nationality British | |
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Education Exeter College, Oxford, St Paul's Girls' School Awards New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year Nominations Guardian First Book Award, CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Books Anthony Blunt: His Lives, The Three Emperors: Three Co, George - Nicholas and Wilh Similar People Anthony Blunt, John Lanchester, Wilhelm II, Guy Farley | ||
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Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who now publishes under the name MJ Carter.
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Education
Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford.
Career
Carter's first book was a biography of the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives. It won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize and was short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, the [Whitbread Prize for Best Biography]], and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the US it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002.
Her second historical undertaking was The Three Emperors, which was a group biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II and King George V, all world leaders during the First World War.
Carter also has written several novels, notably The Strangler Vine and its sequel The Infidel Stain, which are Victorian detective stories.
Personal life
Carter is married to John Lanchester, with whom she has two children, and lives in London.