Jeanette Winterson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jeanette Winterson

Author Name:

Jeanette Winterson

Born As:

Other Names:

Jeanette Winterson

Born:

27 Aug 1959

Died:





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Selected Works:

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - 1985
Boating for Beginners - 1985
Fit For The Future: The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well - 1986
The Passion - 1987
Sexing the Cherry - 1989
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: the script - 1990
Written on the Body - 1992
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd - 1994
Great Moments in Aviation: the script - 1995
Art Objects - 1995
Gut Symmetries - 1997
The World and Other Places - 1998
The Powerbook - 2000
The King of Capri - 2003
Lighthousekeeping - 2004
Weight - 2005
Tanglewreck - 2006
The Stone Gods - 2007
The Battle of the Sun - 2009
The Lion, The Unicorn and Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story - 2009
The Battle of the Sun - 2010.                          
                          
Received an OBE in the 2006 honours list.                          
Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home.