The Passion

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories as well as children's books non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields London.