Jeanette Winterson
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 27, 1959
- Place of birth
- Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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.