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Jeanette Winterson CBE FRSL (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology.
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Jeanette Winterson, British writer noted for her quirky, unconventional, and often comic novels. Her notable works included Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Sexing the Cherry (1989), and Frankissstein (2019). Learn more about Winterson’s life and career.
Oct 29, 2023 · Katy Waldman interviews the author Jeanette Winterson, whose latest book, “Night Side of the River,” is out in time for Halloween.
AUTHOR | JEANETTE WINTERSON. I was born in Manchester, England, to a young woman who worked as a machinist at Marks & Spencer. That was in the days when Lancashire was still the textile king of the U.K., and garments for M&S were made in their factory in Manchester.
Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death. UK EDITION. US EDITION. Jeanette Winterson's books, from most recent to first published.
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College ...
Mar 22, 2012 · “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” is a memoir as unconventional and winning as the rollicking bildungsroman Winterson assembled from the less malignant aspects of her...
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Jeanette Winterson was named as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Writers' in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
Mar 8, 2012 · Jeanette Winterson’s “ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ” (1985), written when she was 24, won the Whitbread prize for a first novel in Britain and marked her as a raw and devious talent. That...
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