found: goodreads.com, 07-18-2014:(M.J. Carter; biographer, historian and thriller writer; she 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; Anthony Blunt: his lives (2001), her first book, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Biography Award; it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002; her second book, The Three Emperors (US title, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm), was published in 2009; in 2014 her first thriller, The Strangler Vine, the first in a series set in the first years of Queen Victoria's reign, was published in England; she lives in London with her husband and family)
