Jeanette Winterson, CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.

Jeanette Winterson

Writing Born August 27, 1959 Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Jeanette Winterson, CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.

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Titanic Sinks Tonight

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Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

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Queer as Art

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Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

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