Jeanette Winterson

1959

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.

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