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About Jeanette Winterson
English author
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. She is known for her fiction, especially her debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical story about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Her later novels often explore gender and sexual identity, and her more recent work turns to the relationship between people and technology. Her books have been translated into nearly 20 languages, and she also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
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Books by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1991
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012
Weight
2006
The passion
1989
The stone gods
2007