Miranda Carter

Miranda Carter
Language	English
Nationality	British
Education	St Paul's Girls' School
Alma mater	Oxford University

Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who now publishes under the name MJ Carter.

Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford.

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 Biography prize 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 has also written several novels, notably The Strangler Vine and its sequel The Infidel Stain, which are Victorian detective stories.

Carter is married to John Lanchester, with whom she has two children, and lives in London.

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