Biography
Jeanette Winterson is an English writer. She was born on 27 August 1959 in Manchester and educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published in 1985 and won the Whitbread Prize for best first novel. Winterson wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of the novel, which aired in 1990 and won a BAFTA Award for Best Drama.
She has received an OBE and a CBE for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
