Miranda Carter is a British writer and biographer. She was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

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Her first book was a biography of the art historian and spy

SPY

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 Anthony Blunt

Anthony Blunt

Anthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...

, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives. It won the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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 Award and the Orwell Prize

Orwell Prize

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 and was short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

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, 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.

She is married to John Lanchester

John Lanchester

John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford.-Works:...

, with whom she has two children, and lives in London

London

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Books

• Anthony Blunt: His Lives. London, Macmillan. 2001. ISBN 0330367668
• The Three Emperors: Three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One. London, Penguin. 2009. ISBN 9780670915569

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