Huntly Carter was a British journalist and critic of the performing and visual arts. While little is known about Carter's personal life, records indicate that he was born in England sometime in 1862 and died in 1942. Although Carter received training in the medical field, he worked predominantly as a journalist and theater critic. He served as international editor and reviewer for the modernist periodical The New Age from the journal's inception in 1909 and he edited a number of volumes on various social issues in England after World War I. As a critic and a scholar, his interests shifted with time. In the years leading up to World War I he focused on the visual arts and then directed his attention to the performing arts in the years after the war. From 1914 onwards he traveled extensively in Europe, collecting research materials for his studies on the development of avant-garde theater and cinema in interwar Europe. His correspondence indicates that these research trips continued throughout the next two decades, with at least four trips taking him to the Soviet Union. He wrote at least 7 scholarly works on avant-garde art movements, including The New Spirit in the Cinema, The New Spirit in the European Theatre, 1914-1924, The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre, 1917-28, and The Theatre of Max Reinhardt. His scholarship features a pan-European focus, with a particular emphasis on arts movements in Germany and Russia, although his command of the German and Russian languages remains unclear. Several of these volumes were republished in the 1960s and 1970s, with at least one reprint emerging in 2010. Beyond these monographs, he also published articles in Soviet periodicals, including Izvestia, Vecherniaia Moskva, and Zhizn' iskusstva. Politically, Carter leaned to the left. He actively participated in the 1917 Club in London, along with other well-known British socialists such as Aldous Huxley. He regularly participated in cultural exchange programs between the Soviet Union and Great Britain. Additionally, he edited a series of volumes on political and social reform in England. The details of Carter's death are sketchy. A New York Times article from 1942 indicates that London authorities found his body in a vacant building. They determined that he died from a ''fall''. However, without a more detailed obituary, his death remains largely in the dark.