Miranda Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist before beginning research on her biography of Anthony Blunt in 1994. She lives in London with her husband and son. This is her first book.
Astonishingly good
*Daily Telegraph*
Highly impressive... sensitive and compelling... Miranda Carter has
written a richly informative biography which, in the end, does not
fall into the trap of tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner - not
only because she is not seeking to pardon him, but also because
there is something here that is still quite impossible to
comprehend
*Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph*
A compelling biography... Miranda Carter's skill at scouring the
different compartments of Blunt's life is deeply impressive
*Julian Barnes, New Yorker*
Astonishingly good * Daily Telegraph *
Highly impressive... sensitive and compelling... Miranda Carter has
written a richly informative biography which, in the end, does not
fall into the trap of tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner - not
only because she is not seeking to pardon him, but also because
there is something here that is still quite impossible to
comprehend * Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph *
A compelling biography... Miranda Carter's skill at scouring the
different compartments of Blunt's life is deeply impressive *
Julian Barnes, New Yorker *
Publisher and journalist Carter's first book is a massive and meticulously researched study of "the lives" of Anthony Blunt arguably the most enigmatic of the Cambridge-educated spies associated with Burgess, Maclean, and Philby. Before his exposure in 1979, Blunt was known primarily as an art historian and director of the Courtauld Institute. Carter's 18-chapter biography begins with "Son" and closes predictably with "Traitor." The way stations in between present not only a multifaceted portrait of the man but also a panorama of 50 years of British intellectual life. Carter presents vivid accounts (enlivened by the recollections from scores of interviews with Blunt's friends and colleagues) of Blunt's public school experiences at Marlborough College, his companions and escapades at Cambridge, and his transformation from left-wing intellectual rebel and homosexual into an outwardly conforming member of the establishment. However, even this flow of information fails to explain Blunt's acts and motives. Not surprisingly, many of those interviewed have markedly different recollections of crucial events. Indeed, if this biography has a fault, it is that the writer presents the reader with too many versions of the elusive Blunt's remarkable lives. For large public libraries and academic libraries with an interest in espionage. Robert C. Jones, Central Missouri State Univ., Warrensburg Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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