20 August 2018
English author Angela Carter, known for her dark feminist stories, always told people that she wrote her first novel when she was only six years old. Bill and Tom Go to Pussy Market was "full of social realism: cats going about their daily business." As a child, her favorite cat was named Charlie (a naughty kitty who liked to use her mother's shoes as a litter box). She adopted a white cat with "lavender ears" and "bracken-colored eyes" with her first husband, Paul Carter. After winning the Somerset Maugham Award in 1969 for her novel Several Perceptions, Carter used the proceeds to travel to Japan following her estrangement from Paul.
