Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer born in Manchester, England, in 1959, adopted by Pentecostal parents, and raised in Accrington, Lancashire. She studied English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and gained acclaim with her debut semi-autobiographical novel *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit* (1985), which won the Whitbread Prize for best first novel. She has authored numerous novels, memoirs, essays, and screenplays, earning an OBE in 2006 for services to literature and serving as Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester.

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