Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays.
Winterson has received numerous awards, including the E.M. Forster Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to literature. She continues to write, teach, and speak on literature, technology, and the power of language to shape identity and change. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
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