Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After moving to London, her first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", … Wikipedia
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August 27, 1959
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  • Jeanette Winterson author page

    Jeanette Winterson (1959-) "Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language.
    books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-142,00.html

  • Jeanette Winterson

    The official site of the author includes a monthly column, excerpts from all her books, and links to interviews.
    www.jeanettewinterson.com/

  • Wikipedia

    The definitive Wikipedia entry for Jeanette Winterson. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Winterson

  • PEN American Center -...

    Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England on August 27, 1959 and was adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby milltown of Accrington. ... Winterson has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations,
    pen.org/page.php/prmID/1209

  • Jeanette Winterson at the...

    "Like Scheherazade, Ms. Winterson possesses an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wondrous worlds in which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. She possesses the ability to combine the biting satire of Swift with the ethereal magic of Garc
    www.complete-review.com/authors/wintersj.htm

  • Jeanette Winterson on IMDb

    She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to literature. In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List - a list of the most influential gay men and women - she came n
    www.imdb.com/name/nm0936019/

  • Seattle Arts & Lectures...

    Jeanette Winterson had an unusual childhood. She was born in 1959 in Manchester, England and was adopted by Pentecostal parents, who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. From an early age, her parents groomed her to become a missionary
    www.lectures.org/winterson.html

  • PEN American Center -...

    Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England on August 27, 1959 and was adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby milltown of Accrington. ... Winterson has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations,
    www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1209

  • Scriptorium - Jeanette...

    When Jeanette Winterson was asked (so the story goes) by a British newspaper questionnaire distributed among the nation's writers, whom she considered to be the greatest living prose stylist in English, her answer was unequivocal: Jeanette Winterson . Su
    www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/winterson.html