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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

Edmund Gordon

"With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work"--

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Carter, angela, 1940-1992 -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyMemoir & Personal History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2017FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Angela Carter90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Edmund Gordon’s biography claims to be the first full account of Angela Carter’s life and enduring work, supported by unprecedented access to her personal records and fresh anecdotes from those close to her.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.