Peter Carter (author)

Carter was born in Manchester, one of eight children.^{[citation needed]} He left school at 14 and later took evening classes in art and philosophy, before entering Wadham College, Oxford at age 30.^[1] There, he received the M.A. in English Literature in 1962.^[2]

Carter's first wife Lois Wilkinson died after one year, during his time at Oxford.^[1] He later married Gudrun Willege, a German photographer^[2] —or Ulrike Willige^[1]— and moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1976.^[2] Later they divorced and remarried; he moved or visited back and forth.^[1] He married four times in all, and had one stepson.^[1]

On 21 July 1999 Carter died from abdominal hæmorrhage while writing at his home in Warwick.^[1]

Carter worked as a school teacher from 1963 to 1976, then a full-time writer until his death in 1999.

For Under Goliath (Oxford, 1977) he was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.^[3][a] He won Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Sentinels,^[4] published by Oxford University Press in 1981. The annual book award is judged by a panel of British children's writers and recognises the year's best book by an author who has not yet won it.^[5]

All of Carter's books were published by Oxford University Press.^[1]

• The Black Lamp (1973), illustrated by David Harris
• The Gates of Paradise (1974), illus. Fermin Rocker
• Madatan (1974), illus. Victor Ambrus
• Mao (1976), a biography
• Under Goliath (1977)
• The Sentinels (1980)
• Children of the Book (1982)
• Captain Teachum's Buried Treasure (1989), illus. Korky Paul
• Bury the Dead (1987)
• Leaving Cheyenne (1990); U.S. title, Borderlands
• The Hunted (1993)
• Fairy Tales from Grimm retold by Carter (Oxford, 1999)

• Peter Carter at Library of Congress Authorities – with 11 catalogue records

WARNING: WorldCat conflates at least two distinct writers named Peter Carter. See the header far above.