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Jeanette Winterson

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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, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.

One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, 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.

She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.

Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.

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Jeanette Winterson

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Books from Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Written on the Body

The Passion

Sexing the Cherry

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Lighthousekeeping

The Gap of Time

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

The Stone Gods

Art and Lies

Tanglewreck

Boating for Beginners

Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

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Gut Symmetries

The Daylight Gate

The King of Capri

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