Jeanette Winterson 08/27/1959 , (65 years old) in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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Writing

Biography

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.