Jeanette Winterson
1959
57 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,* was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages.
Also published as: Winterson, Janette, Winterson Jaenette, Jeane WINTERSON, JEANETTE WINTERSON, Winterson Jeanette
Most-read books
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
3.6 · 1985 · 188 want to read
Written on the Body
4.1 · 1992 · 89 want to read
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
4.2 · 2011 · 67 want to read
Sexing the Cherry
3.6 · 1989 · 62 want to read
The passion
4.5 · 1987 · 51 want to read
The stone gods
3.3 · 2007 · 27 want to read
Lighthousekeeping
3.7 · 2004 · 18 want to read
Art Objects
4 · 1995 · 17 want to read
Gut symmetries
4 · 1997 · 18 want to read
Weight
3.7 · 2005 · 14 want to read
Frankissstein
4 · 2019 · 16 want to read
Art and Lies
4 · 1994 · 13 want to read
Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
3.5 · 2006 · 9 want to read
The gap of time
3.5 · 2015 · 6 want to read
The daylight gate
3 · 2012 · 9 want to read
The PowerBook
2000 · 9 want to read
The Body
4 · 1992 · 7 want to read
12 Bytes
4.5 · 2021 · 6 want to read
The world and other places
2 · 1998 · 4 want to read
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
4 · 2016 · 2 want to read
Passion Fruit
1986 · 1 want to read
Boating for beginners
2 · 1985
The Battle of the Sun
4 · 2009
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Love
2017 · 1 want to read