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Jeanette Winterson
Memoir & Personal Growth
English author whose semi-autobiographical and later novels explore gender, sexuality, and human–technology relations; also a broadcaster and creative writing teacher.
Biography
Jeanette Winterson was born 27 August 1959 and 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 and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology.
Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing. Winterson has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Books by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.