Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.

• Known ForWriting
• Born27 August 1959 (age 67)
• Place of BirthManchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK